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Topic: Roman Empire

Tenika Davis as Achillia in "Spartacus: House of Ashur" (Starz)

Why the Roman Empire still captivates us

Melanie McFarland
President Donald Trump holds up a model of his proposed triumph arch at the White House on Oct. 15, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's monument fit for an emperor

Benjamin Jasnow
Augustus Caesar in a MAGA red hat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump: More like Hitler or Augustus?

Jim Sleeper
Paul Mescal plays Lucius in "Gladiator II" (Paramount Pictures)

Real history trumps Gladiator II fiction

Nicholas Liu
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The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate may have driven Huns to raid

Troy Farah
The Hagia Sophia stands as a testament to Byzantium’s achievements. (Salvator Barki/Getty Images)

Why QAnon fans love the Byzantine Empire

Roland Betancourt - The Conversation
Richard Painter (Getty Images)

Former WH lawyer: Trump wants full power

Chauncey DeVega
A fisherman drives a boat near Ilulissat, Greenland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Subtle marks of Romans left in ice cores

Elisa Bonnin
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Valerie Tarico - Alternet
Keith Ablow (Screenshot, Fox News)

Fox: Soccer is a distraction!

Elias Isquith
(AP/Charles Sykes)

Curtis Dozier
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Steven Strauss
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