In the space of a hundred years, Rome was transformed from a republic with democratic institutions ... At the end of the second century BC the Roman people was sovereign. True, rich aristocrats ...

The Roman Republic also provided an important caution. While it had been extraordinarily successful, the Founders also knew that Rome degenerated into autocracy in the first century BC.

However debatable, it could equally be applied to the Roman republic. By 146 BC, the Romans found themselves the undisputed masters of the Mediterranean world. But they had achieved this without ...

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 assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC triggered a power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic, leading to the powerful rise of the Roman Empire, which helped shape the modern world.

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...

Two thousand years ago, on August 19, 14 AD, Caesar Augustus died. He was Rome’s first emperor, having won a civil war more than 40 years earlier that transformed the dysfunctional Roman ...

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 ...

But the 500 years of the ancient Roman Republic (from 509 BC to 27 BC) also has a lot in common with the modern democratic system. The consul — the highest elected public official of the republic — ...

Gaius Gracchus attempted to enact social reform in Ancient Rome but died at the hands of the Roman Senate ... bad by the 40s BC, what was it that started to go wrong for the Republic?” ...