Tom Grennan, who has the initials OY tattooed on his knuckles to represent the car reg for Offaly, is fiercely proud of his ...

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 ...

Caesar and the Roman Republic were different to Trump and America. Caesar was a blue-blood patrician, which Trump isn’t. Rome had its most powerful centuries ahead of it, while America is in ...

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.

Like the American one, the Roman Republic was founded on the rejection of a king. Rome had a representative government that, though flawed, was based on the rule of law, with freedom of speech and ...

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 ...

Hailing from a liberal bourgeois background deeply connected to the Ukrainian independence movement, the Rosdolsky family had close associations with figures like Ivan Franko, a prominent poet in the ...

‘Lawless Republic’ Review: A Society in Decay Amid violence and disorder in the Roman Republic, dodgy legal maneuvering made things worse. Cicero was far from blameless.

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 ...

Enemies of the Republic? Cicero’s career was both marked and made by the constitutional crises that characterized the last decades of the Roman republic. In several of his speeches from the ...

Were there ever sharks in the Colosseum? Did gladiators ever really ride rhinos? We asked a (very patient) Roman-history expert all our questions about ‘Gladiator II.’ ...