Nearly 2,000 years after the Roman historian Suetonius wrote "The Lives of the Caesars" in the second century C.E., his work ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire ... This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about food and circumcision.

In the ancient Roman world ... Later Roman authors provide more detail. Martial, a Roman poet writing in the first century A.D., for instance, describes a cinaedus' dysfunctional penis as like ...