The Roman Republic was a period of territorial expansion presided over by a government that was designed to represent both the wealthy and poor citizens of ancient Rome. While this system somewhat ...

This new title signified Octavian's elevation to the position of emperor in all but name, ending the Roman Republic, according to many modern historians. Octavian was granted this title after ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years ... The Romans were nearly always at war; their celebrated expansion was achieved by military subjugation of foreign lands and harsh repression of ...

Leaders like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison read the historian Polybius, who laid out one of the clearest descriptions of the Roman Republic’s constitution, where representatives of various ...

The increasing monetary production in the region coincided with a broader extractive economic system of the Roman Republic, fostering a territorial reorganization and the expansion of cereal ...

This was the question Duncan wanted to examine in his new book, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. To learn more about the events that preceded the fall of ...

The book opens with an essay by Armstrong on why the Roman Army still requires more study ... and military service, how the generous expansion of citizenship fueled the Republic’s military might, the ...