A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

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 of ...

It all started with the Roman Republic, established in 501 B.C. as a model of government that centuries later the fledgling United States and European nations would look toward. Checks and balances on ...

Julius Caesar and Pompey’s rivalry charted the Roman Republic’s shift to an empire—from the First Triumvirate to the Rubicon ...

How can we define the significance of an ancient civilization? One obvious yardstick could be how proud its purported descendants are about it. A more valid criterion will be to see how its influence ...