Jamie Gianoutsos’s lively history shows how ancient arguments about virtue and tyranny still haunt modern politics, from ...

Ancient Rome brought a wide swath of innovation to the world. Civil engineering feats such as roads, bridges and aqueducts helped to grow and fuel the fast-spreading empire, with the help of ancient ...

Citizens of modern democracies have used a variety of methods and technologies to cast their votes on election day, but how did people participate in elections in ancient times? Historians have pieced ...

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic’s ruin still influences how we ...

After all this time, the ancient Roman Empire somehow still has its grubby paws all over the modern world. You can see its legacy in the use of Latin in fields like law and taxonomy, or the use of the ...