The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ... into the Senate was a big step. Over time, the Senate would be open to Roman citizens from outside Italy. By the end of the first ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced ... In fact, slaves looked so similar to Roman citizens that the Senate once considered a plan to make them wear special clothing ...

These and ancient seeds unearthed at the site indicate ... of Samnites relocating to Fregellae had been discussed by the ...

Archaeologists have found a trove of ancient silver coins that were apparently ... the imposing pirate fleets on behalf of the Roman Senate,. Apart from this, there were frequent raids against ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

Instead, the Roman Senate and its members hold center stage. Seldom has an ancient aristocracy shown such tenacity and such resilience in difficult times. Nor has any recent scholar shown such a gift ...

Based on a bestselling novel by Robert Harris, the Oscar-tipped film imagines what goes on behind the scenes of the secretive process – complete with scheming, smearing and leaking.

Violence exploding in public spaces, corruption by political figures and economic elites, the will of the people thwarted in both elections and votes in the senate, military misadventures ... not only ...

This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill, today a modest public park marred by unclever graffiti, where young men idly kick ...

In a phrase only a beltway scholar could coin, Olsen called the 2024 election a “binomial contest of values.” Human ...

If we subscribe to the idea of a general from the Roman senate, as the franchise originally described this logo, the armor isn't what most Senators wore in ancient Rome. This is. And it would've ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.