Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered an ancient city that the Roman army so thoroughly besieged ... until residents rebelled ...

It is the collapse of the Roman Republic, which developed over some four centuries and disappeared almost suddenly when the Senate granted Octavian extraordinary powers in 27 BCE – he renamed ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

In 1848 a pure Democracy ... with a strong hand; or your Republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with ...

Could the animal have lived till 1848, he would probably have found himself ... on his neighbor with a million in the funds. During the Roman Revolution of '48, the beggars who had funded their ...

Roman gladiator tomb found filled with bones of 12 people (Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey) Archaeologists suspect the buried individuals were likely members of the upper ...

They sought to revive the old Roman ideal: a legal code based on ... That force served the House of Bonaparte even during the Second Republic. In 1848, Napoleon’s nephew Louis-Napoleon was ...

But the great international centre of feudalism was the Roman Catholic Church ... Under the Second Republic, 1848-51, the whole bourgeoisie ruled but for three years only; their incapacity ...

(3) A study of Roman civilization from the Republic through the Empire ... Directed Elective Area I. 414 Early American Republic, 1800–1848. (3) An intensive study of the development of the United ...

The boni, the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite, have hitherto escaped scholarly ... a new narrative of the 'fall of the republic' emerges. The shifting allegiances of the ...