It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted ... Incitatus , the head of government and a priest. He made an attempt to invade ...

After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first imperial dynasty, the consuls ...

Some of the similarities between ancient Rome at its height and the United States are obvious — from the sheer size of both ...

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced ... In fact, slaves looked so similar to Roman citizens that the Senate once considered a plan to make them wear special clothing ...

JULIA: I’m at a Roman bathhouse in ... and many countries model their government on Ancient Rome, choosing to be republics with elected senators serving in a senate.

In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government ... Though believed by the ...

By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ...