Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary American politics is bad enough as the country heads into the 2024 election. But it’s not the end.

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 ...

Paul Mescal is the "mesmerising centre" of Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and ...

While the fall of the Roman Republic seemed inevitable in hindsight ... and the actual state of things were clearly different. The Senate survived his ascension, but Octavian—now Augustus ...

Violence exploding in public spaces, corruption by political figures and economic elites, the will of the people thwarted in both elections and votes in the senate ... a republic in disarray. These ...

This 2006 study examines all facets of exile in the Roman Republic: its historical development, technical legal issues, the possibility of restoration, as well as the effects of exile on the lives and ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump’s granddaughter Kai Trump posted a photo of the entire family clan at their estate in ...

“President Trump has achieved a historic and hard-fought victory: overcoming four sham indictments, surviving two ...