When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.

As Professor Frederik Vervaet of the University of Melbourne explains, “the fall of the Roman Republic could easily ... take second jobs just to keep up. Every housing policy in this country ...

Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted ... You can help us rate how impressive they were. First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor – he was ...

most Americans can hardly imagine that their system of self-government might break and be replaced by an imperial dynasty. That is why considering what undid the Roman Republic is useful today ...