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 ...

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 ...

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 ...