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 ...
Dr. Edward Watts is a professor of history at the University of California at San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale and is the author of five books, most recently, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell ...
The Rise of the Republic expansion takes us back 127 years before Total War: Rome II's original campaign to the founding of the Republic, when Rome was just another bullshit town. Compared to the ...
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, ...
It all started with the Roman Republic, established in 501 B.C. as a model of government that centuries later the fledgling United States and European nations would look toward. Checks and balances on ...
Is America on the brink? Looking back at the fall of Rome and what it can teach us about America now. In 22 BC a series of political and economic crises buffeted the regime of Augustus, Rome’s first ...
The story of the fall of the Roman republic involves dysfunctional government, political selfishness, and constitutional collapse, played by the usual actors in togas, famously among them Cicero and ...
The map was created using genuine data and explores the idiom "All roads lead to Rome," its makers say. However ... What's False It's more accurately described as a "data visualization" or ...
What does a republic in decline look like? It’s an increasingly pressing question for the United States, where rising economic inequality is creating stress, anxiety and resentment. Endemic racism and ...