While modern scholars discount some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians ... and religious leaders. A senate acted as an advisory council. The king chose its members, who became known ...

This episode looks at the historical significance of sports in ancient cultures ... He rose to the throne from the Roman senate because his mother Agrippina murdered the previous emperor, Claudius ...

“The Senate and Roman People” or “The Senate ... used “SPQR” to invoke comparisons between the glories of ancient Rome and his own regime, as part of a vision for what he called the ...

A recent study analyzes the attempt by the Roman emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE, to promote haruspicy, the ...

The letters SPQR stand for Senatus populusque Romanus (”The Senate and ... all men, so Rome too receives men from every land.” Clelia Martínez Maza is professor of ancient history at the ...