Before Caesar ruled the Roman Republic, this expansive stretch of territory was a democracy governed by a Senate and several high-ranking elected officials. While this early form of Roman ...

Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator. Some might argue that the empire that rose from the ashes of the republic brought ...

it ranks as the highest office in the Roman Senate. Caesar’s co-consul is Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus who is a close ally of Cato, one of Caesar’s chief adversaries in the republic. Caesar soon ...

No kings’ would effectively be the watchword through the Roman republic’s entire history. ‘Rex’ was a word the Romans hated.

It all started with the Roman Republic, established in 501 B.C. as a model of government that centuries later the fledgling United States and European nations would look toward. Checks and ...

The demise of the Roman Republic shows the perils of extreme partisanship ... dispute over where political power should rest: in the Senate of several hundred lifelong members or the far more ...

created a climate of paranoia in the Senate, and is ultimately regarded as the first step to the Civil Wars that ended the Roman Republic and built the Roman Empire. Both Watts and Osgood can ...

Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator. Some might argue that the empire that rose from the ashes of the republic brought peace and ...