The story of the fall of the Roman republic involves dysfunctional government, political selfishness, and constitutional collapse, played by the usual actors in togas, famously among them Cicero and ...

Donald Trump’s unleashing of an armed mob on the Capitol to overturn an election on January 6, 2021 was a stark warning of the fragility of democracy. And there have been other signs of strain. At a ...

But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies were viewed by their republic-minded contemporaries. In the films, the brawny biceps of gladiators ...

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 ...

A volcanic eruption in Alaska triggered climate change that may have hastened the end of the Roman Republic, leading to the rise of the Roman Empire, a new study finds. During 43 B.C. and 42 B.C., ...

A new study presents evidence that a massive eruption in Alaska may have influenced the rise of the Roman Empire. U.S. Geological Survey The two years after Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C.

Guy D. Middleton receives funding from the European Regional Development Fund-Project “Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an ...

A specialist in Roman social and cultural history, political theory and law, Champlin joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and transferred to emeritus status in 2016. “Professor Champlin’s scholarship ...