In Cicero’s Rome, the government eventually came under the control of a well-trained ruling class. Introduction As...
Rome
Rome’s ordinary magistrates and promagistrates successfully carried on all Roman campaigns, without the need for a dictator,...
One of the most common types of graffiti found lining the streets of Pompeii were political graffiti....
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
The loss caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River....
Trials were very much a public affair, held out-of-doors or in basilicas; private homes might themselves have...
To this day we say: “a man who is worth his salt.” In ancient Rome, this was...
It was a full scale political revolution carried out by less advantaged Romans that redefined the Roman...
He set the stage for Julius Caesar to later seize political power through force and end Republican...
Cincinnatus was a conservative opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into...
The true greatness in the structure of the Roman soul consists in a kind of spiritual grandeur...
Antony was popular as a tribune and sought vengeance for Caesar before joining Cleopatra and falling out...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...
The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Introduction...
Sentenced to death but acquitted in a public trial based upon his father’s appeal. The Story According...
Flaminius was in such a rush to catch the invaders that he failed to set up proper...
Plebeians sought to enforce reform on Patricians – and it worked. First, what happened in politics at...
What was the role of rhetoric in all of their different courts and procedures? By O.E. Tellegen...
The plutocracy of Carthage was only too willing to pick a quarrel with Rome. The Semitic colony...
The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
When Carthage lost the Second Punic War, they found themselves again indebted to Rome and forced to...
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
Mark Antony, one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic, offered the nation’s elected leader,...
Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could...
Women who chose a life in the arena – and it does seem this was a choice...
A significant portion of the wall still exists, particularly the mid-section, and for much of its length...
This faction favored the cause of the plebeians (the commoners). Introduction The Populares were a political faction...
The Optimates opposed the extension of Roman citizenship and sought the preservation of the “mos maiorum”, the...
Most of these expeditions began as military campaigns, while the last one may have been initiated in...