While this early form of Roman government had ... the ruthless act plummeted Rome into further chaos, and out of the disarray, the Roman Empire was born. While the Senate still maintained its ...

Like the American one, the Roman Republic was founded on the rejection of a king. Rome had a representative ... members of his family into government. The Senate stood by while Augustus removed ...

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

By the sixth century B.C., some of Rome’s most famous institutions, from the Forum to the Senate, were in existence ... some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians, they agree that during ...

We can gain more insight on our modern problem by turning to ancient Rome for a lesson on how ... to lower the price of grain for poor Romans, rein in the Senate’s influence, and pay for ...

“The Senate and Roman People ... comparisons between the glories of ancient Rome and his own regime, as part of a vision for what he called the “New Roman Empire.” More recently, SPQR ...