Long after emperors ruled, a group of Roman senators still clung to tradition and power. But their fate was sealed by politics, war, and time. Discover the overlooked story of how the Senate vanished ...

In the end, however, the ruthless act plummeted Rome into further chaos, and out of the disarray, the Roman Empire was born. While the Senate still maintained its role as a legislative body ...

The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C., when Octavian, Julius Caesar's adopted son and heir, was granted the title "Augustus," meaning "revered one," by the Roman senate. This new title signified ...

created a climate of paranoia in the Senate, and is ultimately regarded as the first step to the Civil Wars that ended the Roman Republic and built the Roman Empire. Both Watts and Osgood can ...

Some of us are thinking daily about the Roman Empire—but are we really clear ... Caesar said as he succumbed to his stab wounds on the Senate floor: “Et tu, Brute?,” Latin for “And you ...