Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

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 ...

This is the last of a four-part series on Tom Holland's Persian Fire and Rubicon. Read part one, part two, and part three. The long struggle between Greek and Persian ended with an astonishing victory ...

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 ...

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 ...

One Ancient Roman historian argued that republics need the fear of common enemies to prevent political factions from tearing ...

Though there have been allegations of wokeness, House of Ashur is indeed a brilliant Roman Empire story, capturing ...

Total War: Rome 2, the upcoming strategy game from The Creative Assembly, will feature a variety of playable historical factions including Rome, publisher Sega announced today. With a world map ...

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 ...