This alone ensured that the Senate and its members remained relevant and important. The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries ...

According to historians, the Roman Senate honored Caesar’s death by renaming the seventh month of the year from "Quintilis" to "Julius," which later became known as "July" with the rise of the English ...

At home, he reformed the Roman calendar, tackled local government, resettled veterans into new cities, made the Senate more representative and granted citizenship to many more foreigners.