‘No kings’ would effectively be the watchword through the Roman republic’s entire history. ‘Rex’ was a word the Romans hated. It was short-hand for ‘tyranny’.
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While Roman emperors dominated the institutions of state, they were still constrained by them.
Unfortunately for the Romans, high tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic woes.
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
This doomed romance ended abruptly in 44 BCE when Caesar was quite literally stabbed in the back (and from all sides) by his enemies in Rome. She pretty soon hooked up with one of his closest allies.
Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli dissected the threats authoritarian figures pose to representative government.
A scholar of early Christian literature writes that religious theories around celestial events are part of a larger human pattern to find meaning. And they go back thousands of years.
Kevin McCarthy, the only speaker of the House to be ousted, has quit Congress. The ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as Shakespeare, understood the price of ambition like McCarthy’s: humiliation.
Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 in Wales is steeped in folklore and tradition.
The ethnicity outcry says more about today’s preoccupations with race than ancient Egypt’s.
A leader’s machismo can lead to war, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has long displayed his version of hyper-masculinity. A historian says that for America’s founders, wars never fed their egos.
Although he privately disapproved of Caesar’s power, Cicero publicly supported him and Cicero also directly contributed to the end of the Roman Republic and the reign of Caesar’s nephew Augustus.
Kip Williams’ modern telling of Julius Caesar asks us to consider just how political stories are told, re-told, and told again.
How on earth did an obscure Roman social practice end up lending its name to a modern psychedelic?
New research suggests ancient climate change shaped the fate of western civilisation.
With much public discussion of President Donald Trump as, potentially, a king, a scholar of Roman history and rhetoric sees 2,000-year-old parallels.
Even though they were a product of apartheid’s propaganda broadcasting machine, Zulu language radio dramas proved subversively powerful by reflecting communal black life and creating new stars.
Although the universe of “Game of Thrones” evokes the medieval era, several key figures in the series are directly inspired by characters from Roman antiquity.
US law says the president can’t be indicted, an echo of ancient Roman law. The efforts Roman leader Julius Caesar made to maintain his immunity is a cautionary tale for America’s political system.
Without the scientific knowledge we have today, ancient cultures turned to myths and legends to understand celestial objects.
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Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Professor, Department of English, Michigan State University
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