How much more difficult? As historian Michele Renee Salzman remarked in "The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome," the calendar was so far out of whack by Caesar's time that in 44 B.C., Jan. 1 ...
Ancient Rome achieved urban milestones centuries ahead of its time, with innovations like shopping malls, public welfare, and ...
ingrained as a staple in the calendar of countless families. But did you know that the tale of Christmas probably goes back to the ancient city of Rome? Yep, without the Saturnalia festivities in ...