It all started with the Roman Republic, established in 501 B.C. as a model of government that centuries later the fledgling United States and European nations would look toward. Checks and balances on ...

This is the last of a four-part series on Tom Holland's Persian Fire and Rubicon. Read part one, part two, and part three. The long struggle between Greek and Persian ended with an astonishing victory ...

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 ...

Is America on the brink? Looking back at the fall of Rome and what it can teach us about America now. In 22 BC a series of political and economic crises buffeted the regime of Augustus, Rome’s first ...

Two thousand years ago, on August 19, 14 AD, Caesar Augustus died. He was Rome’s first emperor, having won a civil war more than 40 years earlier that transformed the dysfunctional Roman Republic into ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to its ...

Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44BC and a bloody civil war followed. This brought down the Roman republic and replaced it with a monarchy led by Caesar’s nephew ...

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