What the Roman senate’s groveling before emperors explains about GOP senators’ support for Trump Over the past three years, the world depicted by Tacitus, an ancient historian, has seemed much ...

4. Julius Caesar Was Not Stabbed In The Main Roman Senate House In The Forum. When you walk through the Roman Forum today, the main Curia (Senate House) is distinctive as one of the most imposing ...

Robert Byrd, the longtime Democratic senator from West Virginia, was steeped in the classics and in the history of the Senate. “Julius Caesar did not seize power in Rome,” Byrd declaimed on ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

The Roman senate declined from a long-held position of authority under the Roman Republic to become almost wholly reliant on the whims of a given emperor, writes a classics scholar.