The Roman Senate was structured in a strict hierarchy. Once elected, an ambitious senator had the opportunity to work his way up through the different ranks of magistrates; ...

When Augustus died in his bed at a ripe old age, the Roman Senate made him a god. This seems an honor that even the most sycophantic U.S. senators would be unlikely to suggest for our president.

The Roman Republic lasted almost 500 years. But the assassination of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate in 44 BC, over fears that he was becoming too powerful, sped up the process of decay.

Through the Protestant South last week, in a private car such as would have befitted a prince of state or finance, moved a prince of the Roman Catholic Church—Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, ...

Titled “Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii” (“The ‘Pumpkinification’ of the Deified Claudius”), it recounts how the Roman Senate declared that the dead Emperor was now a god, complete with ...

As Senator Schumer abandons a dress code for the Upper House, maybe it’s time for the solons to bring back the dress code of the senators who inspired the Founding Fathers. The Roman Senate as ...

Estimated to be around 2,300-years-old, the work is part of a larger aristocratic mansion located near the Roman Forum, ... The identity of its owner, likely a Roman senator. ...

If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of the first century B.C.E. that his grandchildren would willingly hand over governance to a monarch, he would not have believed you.