Dr. Edward Watts is a professor of history at the University of California at San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale and is the author of five books, most recently, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the depiction of living leaders on Roman coins caused similar ructions. It came at a time when the ...

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 ...

What led to the demise of the Roman Republic? Experts now believe that the eruption of a remote Alaskan volcano may be partly to blame. The Okmok volcano erupted early in the year 43 BC, spewing ...

A consensus in our fractured body politic is that democracy is in peril. Yet a 2021 poll found that 42 percent of Republicans viewed Democrats as a "serious threat" to democracy, while 41 percent of ...

The “No Kings” rallies that dotted American cities this past weekend made headlines for their sheer number and intensity.

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to its ...

In ancient Rome, generals could not bring their troops into the city of Rome itself. The reasons for this are as obvious to ...

QUAINT old Dr. Popkin, Greek professor at Harvard in the last generation, was always sighing after the time when he should retire from active service and “ read the authors.” Such is always the ...

Cicero composed one of the epigrams by which he is known today as part of his legal defense, in 52 B.C., of a man named Milo: Silent enim leges inter arma, or “The laws are silent amid weaponry.” Milo ...