I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

Amid violence and disorder in the Roman Republic, dodgy legal maneuvering made things worse. Cicero was far from blameless.

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Almost 35 years ago on February 18, 1990, the entire country was shocked to learn about the brutal killing of Richard ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Breathing Room” has a highly anticipated new book centered around a ... performer who injures herself when a murder gets messy. Their paths collide ...

Italian foreign minister slams ICC's "peculiar" attitude in Libyan suspect case, Abruzzo ski resort cracks down on ...

Fresh off her win for best actress in a drama series at the Critics Choice Awards, Kathy Bates said she had to "dig deep" for her role in "Matlock." ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

Scores of people suspected of being affiliated with the resurgent mob were arrested Tuesday during overnight raids in Palermo ...

Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more.

Italy's highest court on Thursday upheld the conviction of American Amanda Knox for slander in a case related to the murder of her British flatmate in 2007, the final act in a legal drama lasting ...