Alaric escorts the Christian treasures of Rome to safety at Saint Peter's Basilica during the Gothic sack of AD 410. [Click to enlarg...

A gold solidus of Eugenius minted at Lyon ca. AD 393. [Taken from the Dumbarton Oaks collection] On August 22, AD 392, an unlikely man...

A fanciful later European engraving of Ricimer. Though he ruled from behind the throne of the Western Empire for 16 years, his likeness ...

This is a review I wrote over a decade ago. I am posting it here now because I have had reason to refer to it a few times over the past seve...

Tooner's Schooners of South Philadelphia, late 1940s. Anthony "Speed" Schiavo is top row, third from left. Presenting a r...

"We become like that which we love. If we love what is base,  we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble." —...

Detail from Phillipe de Champaigne's painting entitled: The Discovery of the Relics of Saints Gervasius and Protasius (1653)  June ...

Eighty orthodox clerics are burnt to death by the order of the Emperor Valens in this 18th century etching. The Roman Emperor Valens is...

A modern mosaic portrait of Empress Eudocia featured on the exterior of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria. On June 7, AD 421,...

Click here to share this image on Facebook. I created the above graphic four years ago as the presidential election cycle was just rampi...

Potrait of Valentinian II from a statue originally found in Aphrodisias.  On May 15, anno domini 392, the young Western Roman Emperor Va...

A gold solidus of Julius Nepos minted in Thessalonica. May 9 is one of several possible dates given for the death of the last Western Ro...