Discover the roots of the Roman Republic’s downfall in Part 7, where rising inequality, political corruption, and military ...

A hoard of 13 silver coins found in a field was probably lost in the wake of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43, according to a historian. The discovery was made by a metal detectorist in a field ...

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.

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman ...

An Overview of the Roman Senate. The Roman Republic emerged in 509 B.C.E. following the expulsion of its long-standing monarchy. Critical to the Republic’s foundation was an emphasis on forming ...

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 ...

From the Republic to the Empire, civitas—full Roman citizenship—was prized by those who had it and coveted by those who did not. A denarius from from the late second-century B.C. shows Roman ...

As in the Roman Republic, the society is plagued with greed, political division,and special interests. Coppola told NPR he sees the fall of the Roman Republic as a cautionary tale for our times.

There’s just a lot (in a fairly narrow band) of Greek and Roman history to easily consume. What’s more, a small selection of surviving primary sources for the late Roman Republic and early ...

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.