The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the Romans, most Americans can hardly imagine that their system of self ...

Traditionally, Latin terms such as civitas stipendiaria and stipendiarii have served, in modern scholarly works, to defi ne Roman provincial subjects as regular and permanent taxpayers to the Roman ...

The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 138, No. 1 (SPRING 2017), pp. 143-180 (38 pages) This article reconstructs the state finances of the Roman Republic from the years 200–157 B.C.E., reevaluating ...

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.