For centuries, the Roman senate met in the Curia, or meeting house, on the Comitium, ancient Rome’s primary open-air meeting space. While the senate house experienced several fires and ...

The Egyptian archeological mission working in Tel al-Farma (ancient Pelusium) in North Sinai have uncovered part of a huge building dating to the Graeco-Roman Period, used as a seat for the ancient ...

As Tacitus explores, the Roman senate declined from a long-held position of authority under the Roman Republic to become a body almost wholly reliant on the whims of a given emperor. Tacitus (c.

This alone ensured that the Senate and its members remained relevant and important. The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries ...

“Julius Caesar did not seize power in Rome,” Byrd declaimed on the Senate floor in 1993. “The Roman Senate thrust power on Caesar deliberately, with forethought, with surrender, with intent ...

This alone ensured that the Senate and its members remained relevant and important. The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries ...