The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the Romans, most Americans can hardly imagine that their system of self ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

We would do well to study Rome’s decline into anarchy and eventual tyranny. It’s true that America has gone through cycles of political violence before: The ’60s and ’70s saw widespread ...

Like the American one, the Roman Republic was founded on the rejection of a king. Rome had a representative government that, though flawed, was based on the rule of law, with freedom of speech and ...

Ancient Rome transitioned from a monarchy to a republic in 509 B.C., after its seventh king, Tarquin the Proud, was overthrown in a palace coup triggered by his son, Sextus Tarquinius, who violated a ...

Enemies of the Republic? Cicero’s career was both marked and made by the constitutional crises that characterized the last decades of the Roman republic. In several of his speeches from the ...

Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA), have long believed that the ancient city, Fregellae, was once allied with Rome, until residents rebelled against the republic around ...

But the 500 years of the ancient Roman Republic (from 509 BC to 27 BC) also has a lot in common with the modern democratic system. The consul — the highest elected public official of the republic — ...

The end of the Roman republic and the beginning of Christianity are forever linked in history. And the stories of Jesus and Cicero tell us a great deal about our times, about the changing nature ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, ... He took control of the government gradually but ... Like the wealthy elites of ancient Rome who aligned themselves with a dictator so that they ...