In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...

President Trump’s actions are more far-reaching than Julius Caesar’s — and they have met less resistance than in Caesar's ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading ... Alarmed by his growing power, the Senate ordered Caesar to set aside his command. Caesar had no intention of obeying ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on Roman politics of the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus and how the reaction to them helped destabilise the Republic.