Kennerly, Michele and Lamp, Kathleen S. 2017. State of the Scholarship in Classics on Ancient Roman Rhetoric. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 20, Issue. 1 ...

This course provides an introduction to Roman history, from its mythical beginnings to the battle of Actium in 31 BC. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines all aspects of Roman ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...

Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul. In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings. Romulus was supposedly the first king. Rome later became a republic.

The magnificent ancient city of Nikopolis is located in Epirus, the western part of the modern state of Greece.

A balanced republican political system encourages elites to compromise, build consensus, and compete for public approval, qualities the early Roman Republic struggled to develop after its ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most ...