It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman ... Roman Republic. Its political ideology was fundamentally secular and grounded in the ancient Roman republican belief that government ...

His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of ... that he was ruling in the best traditions of the republic, but actually was an absolute ruler creating a dynasty.