Julius Caesar and Pompey’s rivalry charted the Roman Republic’s shift to an empire—from the First Triumvirate to the Rubicon ...
A new map of the Roman Empire's ancient land routes has nearly doubled the length of the confirmed road network, from 190,000 ...
In theory, the Roman Republic was designed to represent both wealthy and poor citizens, but the reality was quite different. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
The U.S. Constitution owes a huge debt to ancient Rome. The Founding Fathers were well-versed in Greek and Roman History. Leaders like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison read the historian Polybius, ...
What led to the demise of the Roman Republic? Experts now believe that the eruption of a remote Alaskan volcano may be partly to blame. The Okmok volcano erupted early in the year 43 BC, spewing ...
QUAINT old Dr. Popkin, Greek professor at Harvard in the last generation, was always sighing after the time when he should retire from active service and “ read the authors.” Such is always the ...
In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of ...
Steele Brand is a historian who pays not even lip service to historical determinism. The Roman Republic collapsed, Brand says, because of deliberate choices made by “grasping, ambitious and amoral” ...
It was the 3rd century B.C.E. With the Roman army advancing across the Italian peninsula, the Greek city of Tarentum sent a desperate plea for help to King Pyrrhus of Epirus. Pyrrhus dispatched his ...
As the upcoming American presidential election begins to play out, it is impossible to ignore the uncanny parallels between the United States and the fall of the Roman Republic. Are we seeing today a ...
ALL CU Classics courses (but no Independent Studies) satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences’ Gen Ed Arts and Humanities distribution requirement. Further College requirements satisfied by individual ...
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