I n about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was ...

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 ...

Whether they focus on the fall of the Roman republic in the late first century B.C. or of the Roman Empire in the late fifth century A.D. (or ahistorically mash the two into one), the same ...

Here's Boris Johnson again: "Augustus was the first emperor of Rome, and he created from the Roman Republic an institution that in many ways everybody has tried to imitate for the succeeding ...

Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul. In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings. Romulus was supposedly the first king. Rome later became a republic.

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th ...