In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of ...

Most people know about the Roman Senate in ancient Rome. But far fewer know that a second senate existed in Constantinople. When Constantine the Great founded his new capital in the 4th century, he ...

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.