25 history 'facts' that are completely FALSE
Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...
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Octavian and Mark Antony: Was Cleopatra Behind the Conflict Between the Two Consuls?
Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...
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Accused killer of Charlottesville entrepreneur had 'to-do list,' 'fake suicide note,' police say
The stepson and accused killer of Charlottesville entrepreneur Phaedrus Acgtblu had a fake suicide note and a to-do list for ...
The Street Journal5d
Lovers, famous and infamous
The most famous gay couple of antiquity… … were possibly really just close platonic friends. Whether Alexander the Great and his close advisor and bodyguard Hephaestion did indeed share a bed is a ...
New Statesman6d
The inattention pandemic
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
8 of History’s Greatest Love Affairs
History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...
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Caesarion faced a tragic fate during the turbulent aftermath of Cleopatra’s defeat by Octavian,
Born Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, Caesarion was the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII. His birth symbolized ...