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

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 ...

A conversation with Mike Duncan about his book The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. He explains how the accumulation of inequalities, social prejudice and ...

Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul. In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings. Romulus was supposedly the first king. Rome later became a republic.

Whether they focus on the fall of the Roman republic in the late first century B.C. or of the Roman Empire in the late fifth century A.D. (or ahistorically mash the two into one), the same ...

Senators in the first century ... and important. The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it ...

That is why considering what undid the Roman Republic is useful today—if we can learn from the Romans’ mistakes. Augustus was Rome’s first emperor. In so becoming, he dismantled the republic ...