Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new ...

The end of the Republic was of course a very different thing from the fall of the Roman empire. Indeed, the empire proceeded to much greater strength and stability after the Republic than during.

Julius Caesar, who brought the republic to an end, walked a path to power paved by charisma and military accomplishments—and his mastery of Roman campaign-finance practices.

Class struggle isn’t a modern invention — it’s been with us for thousands of years. Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and ...

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.

To the editor: Spencer Klavan's elegy for our "dying republic" leaves out one important fact: The Roman republic was a society of, by and for the patrician land-owning class — in other words ...

The Roman Republic was already on the brink of collapse, and it may have been Okmok that was the final straw. “My understanding is that food scarcity and associated civil unrest was pretty ...

The standard story that the Roman republic ended with Caesar Augustus becoming emperor is therefore simply wrong, says Kaldellis. The republic lived on, albeit in a new phase, the Principate, in ...