The Roman Republic flourished for nearly 500 years, ... elite, background) and the plebeians, Roman citizens who were not nobles and often came from poorer backgrounds. ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the Romans, most Americans can hardly imagine that their system of self ...

The Roman Republic lasted from 509 to 27BC and a series of unrest and civil wars in the 1st Century BC marked its transition to an empire. "The oldest coin in the hoard dates back to 152BC and has ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst , it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.

Catherine Steel, The End of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) David Stockton, The Gracchi (Oxford University Press, 1979) In Our Time is a ...

Video Games. Five Roman-themed video games to ease the wait for the release of ‘Gladiator II’ Let’s take a look at five excellent games set in ancient Rome as a background for fans of ...

And the republic was designed precisely with the aim of ensuring that there would never be a king again. And there's a kind of collective memory among the Roman people, a deep-seated dread of tyranny.

This is very much about painting the world red, to borrow Johan’s words, and less about the characters that lead your republic – these characters, curiously enough, are modelled in 3D and age ...

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.