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 ...

Ancient Rome transitioned from a monarchy to a republic in 509 B.C., after its seventh king, Tarquin the Proud, was overthrown in a palace coup triggered by his son, Sextus Tarquinius, who violated a ...

More pre-Roman objects were found in a canal ... of Pompeii during the Social War (91-87 BC), a conflict between the Roman Republic and several autonomous allies, including Pompeii.