The Roses of Heliogabalus, a painting by the Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. "He [Elagabalus] loaded his parasites with violets and other flowers in a banqueting room with a reversible ceiling, in such a way that some of them expired when they could not crawl out to the surface." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus had only turned 14 when his mother staged a coup against Emperor Macrinus in 218 AD and replaced him with her son, who had just barely started developing his prefront

During Arachne and Athena's competition There’s nothing that the gods hate more than getting humbled. If you’ve read my post on...

The Saja Boys really took “let me be your idol” to a new level. Topping every single chart in the world, the fictional Kpop demon boy group from Kpop Demon Hunters did something that I never thought would be possible in a million years…dethrone BTS. Since Kpop had really only turned mainstream in the past decade, you’d expect these kinds of fanatic circles to be relatively modern, but the Ancient World totally pioneered the craze.