The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago ... which began in 27 B.C.E. with the reign of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and ended with the western empire’s collapse in 476 C.E.

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

Within the collection is a “remarkably rare” coin of Roman emperor Otho, who reigned for a mere three months ... purchased the items to supplement his personal collection. Accruing relics and art was ...

These gods had made their home in the Roman world at an early time, along with Greek art and literature ... perhaps not surprising that Rome's first emperor, Augustus, placed his reign under ...