The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first imperial dynasty, the consuls ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading ... Alarmed by his growing power, the Senate ordered Caesar to set aside his command. Caesar had no intention of obeying ...

Cicero was the greatest orator in Roman history, born into the upper echelons of Roman society at a time when the Senate (the ‘S' in ‘SPQR') was still the final word in how that great civilisation ...

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 ...

Donald Trump has divided Republican senators after branding Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator” and blaming the Ukrainian president for starting the war with Russia. At such a critical moment in US ...

“We are not in a Banana Republic. A senator remains a senator anytime, any day, even when suspended or as a non-serving senator. The 10th Senate must exercise caution to preserve the integrity ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

The constitution of the Roman republic was characterised by the separation of powers between the tribune of the plebs, the senate of the patricians, and the elected consuls. The consuls held the ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.