If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of the first ... and the authoritarian violence of Augustus’s predecessors Sulla and Caesar brought Rome to the brink more than once, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of the first century B.C.E ... aristocratic overreach and the authoritarian violence of Augustus’s predecessors Sulla and Caesar brought Rome to the ...