In theory, the Roman Republic was designed to represent both wealthy and poor citizens, but the reality was quite different. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

Yet ultimate power lay with the Roman people. Mass assemblies elected the magistrates, made the laws and took major state decisions. Rome prided itself on being a 'free republic' and centuries ...

And one of the best examples of this faith under strain comes from one of the earliest experiments in elected government: the Roman Republic. Our political culture is saturated with historical ...

A HUGE volcanic eruption in Alaska may have resulted in the fall of the Roman Republic. Scientists think a volcanic event 2,500 years ago triggered a global climate shock that led to widespread ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered an ancient city that the Roman army so thoroughly besieged ... until residents rebelled against the republic around 125 B.C.E. But historical records from ...

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 — ...

This was the question Duncan wanted to examine in his new book, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. To learn more about the events that preceded the fall of ...

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