Why can we say that 146 BCE was crucial in the formation of the Roman Empire, perhaps more than any other single year?

Whether our Western political systems are true democracies or republics can be answered by examining ancient Greek philosophy ...

As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

Senator Cory Booker’s closing gesture at a Democratic convention has sparked fierce online criticism, drawing comparisons to ...

In a dense forest in southern Italy, archaeologists have discovered a Roman wall, over two millennia old, constructed to halt the infamous rebel gladiator Spartacus and his army. Built by the Roman ...

The Roman Republic was originally a system of shared political authority. The Senate ... s relationship to the US government is more complex than in ancient Rome. Some emperors became unpopular ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery ... by SOLVA Archaeology Service, a government-affiliated organization ...

The enduring resonance of the Roman empire ... the Senate from, well…). JMW Turner painted the classical world, from the founding and destruction of Carthage to the torture of the consul Regulus.

However, as I discuss in my book, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction ... The real defenders of Roman values -- according to Cicero, anyway -- exchanged sharp words in the Roman senate.