“Depending on what source you read he was either a forgiving, benevolent, charitable, energetic, and courageous emperor who was diligent in his duties or a wrathful, indolent, and cruel tyrant, who ...

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 ...

New scholarship on the ancient Olympics reminds Christians why Emperor Theodosius outlawed the event so many centuries ago. It begins with an austere mask shattering into pieces, revealing the true ...

Some 1,503 years after they were banned by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, the Olympics returned. From humble beginnings in 1896 they have blossomed into a vast sporting spectacular, now split into a ...