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For over a thousand years, the Roman Senate stood at the center of Roman political life. Even after the emperors replaced the old Republic, the Senate continued to exist as one of the empire’s most ...

The Shock of the Old,’ the leading popularizer of the history of Ancient Rome shows how Trump, as Hitler and Mussolini did in ...

One of the most important finds was a coin struck in A.D. 320 beneath the mast base.

Belisarius was the Byzantine military genius behind Justinian's conquests. His incredible victories were overshadowed by an ...

The phrase Pax Americana carries with it a certain late-imperial confidence, as though history itself had been provisionally ...

From ancient times, periods of relative stability in which one big power was strong enough to maintain a semblance of order in the region it dominated have alternated with others marked by strife like ...