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 of ...

What led to the demise of the Roman Republic? Experts now believe that the eruption of a remote Alaskan volcano may be partly to blame. The Okmok volcano erupted early in the year 43 BC, spewing ...

In theory, the Roman Republic was designed to represent both wealthy and poor citizens, but the reality was quite different. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the depiction of living leaders on Roman coins caused similar ructions. It came at a time when the ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most interested in how ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered an ancient city that the Roman army so thoroughly besieged that it was left uninhabited for nearly 200 years. Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology ...

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The Department of Art History and Art will host Diana Ng, associate professor of art history at University of Michigan-Dearborn, for the Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art Wednesday, April 20, at 5 ...