The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

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 ...

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 — ...

Gaius Gracchus attempted to enact social reform in Ancient Rome but died at the hands of the Roman Senate in 121 B.C. Paul Fearn/Alamy Long before Julius Caesar declared himself dictator for life ...

The Roman Republic Quashed a Rebellion So Completely That This City Became a Landfill Researchers studying the ancient site of Fregellae reveal the consequences of challenging the Roman army.

• Development of institutional space from the Roman Republic to the modern era • New methodologies to study Republican administrative space • Gender, intersectionality and public space • Archaeology ...

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 ...