Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator. Some might argue that the empire that rose from the ashes of the republic brought ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading ... Alarmed by his growing power, the Senate ordered Caesar to set aside his command. Caesar had no intention of obeying ...

The book opens with an essay by Armstrong on why the Roman Army still requires more study ... Bellona and women in the military culture of the Republic, the impact of the Hannibalic War on the Senate, ...

Well, at that time all these places were part of the Roman Empire ... which is when the republic became an empire. The senate still gave advice, but the emperor, rather than the people had ...

Oh, I’ll leave them to convince you. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...