If you’ve heard the phrase “this is my Roman Empire” swirling around the internet, but aren’t exactly sure what it means, you’ve arrived in the right place. It refers to the meme-ified ...

Born Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus in A.D. 12, Caligula rose to power in A.D. 37 as the third Roman emperor. Nicknamed “Caligula,” meaning “little boots,” after the miniature soldier ...

The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire, with a distinctive culture that ...