According to ancient Roman writers, the Roman Republic emerged in 509 B.C., after the last king of Rome was deposed. Modern-day historians often consider the official end of the Roman Republic to ...

From the hills of the Czech Republic’s Moravia region, archaeologists discovered a rare bronze wrist purse worn by a Roman ...

Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes and other forms of collective action. ...

Rome in the Late Republic by M Beard and M Crawford, (2nd ed, Duckworth, 1999) Et tu Brute? Caesar's Murder and Political Assassination by G Woolf, (Profile Books, 2006) ...

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

If you were a Roman citizen around, say, 200 BC, you probably would have assumed Rome was going to last forever. At the time, Rome was the greatest republic in human history, and its institutions ...

The Roman Republic was much more democratic than many assume from the popular image of toga-wearing, dormouse-eating oligarchs, vying for power in the closed shop of the Senate house. While the ...

If we know something about the fall of the Roman Republic, we know vaguely about Julius Caesar, about how he was a popular general who used his support within the military to effect a coup.

Politics How Political Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic If Cato, Cicero, or Julius Caesar were here today, they would recognize the danger posed by Citizens United.