What led to the demise of the Roman Republic? Experts now believe that the eruption of a remote Alaskan volcano may be partly to blame. The Okmok volcano erupted early in the year 43 BC, spewing ...

Rome didn’t fall to invaders, it collapsed from within. Don't miss today's epic new video that reveals how corruption, inequality, political violence, and power-hungry generals slowly tore the Roman ...

Discover the roots of the Roman Republic’s downfall in Part 7, where rising inequality, political corruption, and military ambition began tearing the system apart. This chapter explores how the ...

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 ...

As the upcoming American presidential election begins to play out, it is impossible to ignore the uncanny parallels between the United States and the fall of the Roman Republic. Are we seeing today a ...

As a defender of these ideals, Brutus did not see himself as a conspirator or a traitor. Greek concepts of tyranny, virtue, ...

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Two years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which allowed unlimited corporate and union money into American politics, there is one line that continues to echo: “The appearance of ...

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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 ...