The Principate corresponds to the period from the rise to power of Augustus (27 BCE) to Diocletian (284 CE). The Dominate spans from Diocletian to the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE or the ...

SPQR initially stood for Senatus Populusque Romanus (the Senate and Roman people), but a growing number of white supremacists have adopted the acronym to symbolize their movement.

Ronald Syme’s ‘The Roman Revolution,’ written under the cloud of fascism, is a compelling account of the decline of the Roman oligarchy in favor of a principate.

Spotlighting the “contradiction” that Nero was loved by the Roman people but despised by the elite, the authors explain that the nature of the Roman Principate, which had no clear principle of ...

Melding together machine learning, Photoshop, and historical records, Daniel Voshart has transformed 54 Roman emperor busts from the Principate period (27 B.C. to 285 A.D) ...

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Daniel Voshart, from Toronto, Canada, says that his project of painstakingly colourising and shaping the faces of 54 Roman Emperors was 'a quarantine project that got a bit out of hand'.

Zach Herz is an Imperial historian whose work explores the intersections of law, politics, and culture in Roman thought. As a trained attorney and Classicist (J.D. Yale, 2014: Ph.D. Columbia 2018), ...