In the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Rome, few stories better illustrate the ideal of moral courage than that of ...

AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa reaching its maximum size of roughly 5 million square ...

“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 ...

Ancient Rome produced the longest-lasting empire in human history. It wasn't the biggest - that was the British Empire. It ...

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 babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.