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Caesar and the Roman Republic were different to Trump and America. Caesar was a blue-blood patrician, ... (27 BCE–14 CE) or emperor. While he claimed to restore the republic, ...
The so-called “Papyrus of Cleopatra,” dated February 23, 33 BCE, is a royal decree that exempts a Roman citizen from paying fees for exporting Egyptian wheat and importing Greek wine. It also grants ...
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.
Like the American one, the Roman Republic was founded on the rejection of a king. Rome had a representative government that, though flawed, was based on the rule of law, with freedom of speech and ...
In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst , it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.
We look much further back to see how the Roman Republic, which lasted for about 450 years, ... (138-78 BCE), who marched on Rome from exile in 82 BCE and slaughtered his enemies.
US News: President-elect Donald Trump announced that Roman Pipko will serve as the US ambassador to Estonia in his second administration. Pipko, a native of Es ...
The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break the top 20. Clustered around the Mediterranean, it stretched from Portugal in ...
In late November 2024, during archaeological investigations conducted in Heerlen (Netherlands), an exceptional discovery was made: the tomb of a Roman soldier named Flaccus.This find, dating to the ...
Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...
An Overview of the Roman Senate. The Roman Republic emerged in 509 B.C.E. following the expulsion of its long-standing monarchy. Critical to the Republic’s foundation was an emphasis on forming ...