If you've made it to October 31 without a game plan for a costume, it's time for a reality ... garment designed to denote status among Roman male citizens. Noncitizens, slaves and women weren ...

No article of clothing has ever been more synonymous with this ancient culture. Only a Roman citizen could legally wear one, and as years went by, different styles came to be used as a way of ...

To citizens, the baths made them feel superior to the rest of the world – they made them feel Roman.

In fact, slaves looked so similar to Roman citizens that the Senate once considered a plan to make them wear special clothing so that they could be identified at a glance. The idea was rejected ...

Citizens can be further divided into the privileged and the non-privileged - with some Roman citizens being very clearly distinguished by their power and privilege. These were the senators ...

Still, they accepted their subjects’ differences, granted privileges to several provinces and gave citizenship on a case-by-case basis until A.D. 212, when everyone was given Roman citizenship. Their ...