Editorials
What Have We Done to Deserve This?!
11/10/2011 23:23
(by L. Ross)
Disasters are manifestations of divine disapproval in our eyes, and unusual phenomena as parents of catastrophe. There is a distinction between signs that are solicited and those appearing without...
Witness to the Great Eruption
11/10/2011 21:59
By H. Stauffer
Hello, I am Haley Stauffer, in for Kurt Sheppard on this nights’ Acta Diurna news. On the fateful morning of August 24 A.D. 79, Pompeii was completely buried under 75 feet of ash when the nearby volcano, Mt. Vesuvius...
Roman Bath Houses
11/10/2011 20:42
by T. Yanushefski
Throughout Roman life, there are many important things that could arguably be considered more important than personal cleanliness. Regardless of this, Romans have invested many amounts of both...
Military
11/10/2011 19:16
by C. Kramer
The Roman military is intertwined with the Roman state much more closely than in a modern European nation. Josephus describes the Roman people being as if they were "born ready armed," and that...