Why can we say that 146 BCE was crucial in the formation of the Roman Empire, perhaps more than any other single year?

The Class of 2025 at Honesdale High School has the distinction of celebrating the 150th anniversary of the school’s first commencement in 1875.

He was a military leader and politician when the Roman Republic was in its death throes. While Trump has no military experience, some have compared him with Caesar. English classicist Mary Beard ...

Professor Ulf Büntgen, from Cambridge's Department of Geography, said: "Three consecutive droughts would have had a devastating impact on the productivity of Roman Britain's most important ...

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In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning ...

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A recent study published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology has shown that Roman rule, which occurred over two thousand years ago, continues to leave deep marks on regions in ...

This year, over 10,000 coins spanning the Roman Republic to the Empire were also uncovered. At a deeper level, the team unearthed a gold crown and ring, along with a significant increase in the number ...

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 ...

It is the collapse of the Roman Republic, which developed over some four centuries and disappeared almost suddenly when the Senate granted Octavian extraordinary powers in 27 BCE – he renamed ...

The Roman Republic is a lazy analogy for the modern political condition. By Finn McRedmond Though the refrain “Drain the swamp!” might be a favourite of Donald Trump’s, Cicero made the rhetorical ...