This episode looks at the historical significance of sports in ancient cultures ... handling business and making radical changes as Rome's dictator. When Caesar returned to Rome after three ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

It is important to clarify that, in Ancient Rome, the term dictator did not carry the negative connotation it has today. The dictatorship was a magistracy of the Republic era (magister populi was its ...

The purpose was deliberate — as dictator, he wanted to show that he ... long line of manipulators who invoked the symbolism of ancient Rome to push an agenda. His use of SPQR overlooked the ...

Only he, Sulla thought, could save Rome. Appian, another ancient historian ... Sulla was declared dictator by a compliant Senate he filled with lackeys. A law was passed granting him immunity ...

to expressing his desire to see a “modern-day Sulla,” Musk’s views on ancient Rome demand our attention. Sulla, by the way, was the notorious first-century BC dictator who had hundreds of ...

Holding the office of dictator, Sulla led a bloody ... for Augustus’s establishment of the Roman Empire less than 20 years later. Any avenue into the ancient world on the ruins of which the ...

Writing nearly two centuries later, the Roman historian Dio Cassius describes how in the first few days of his triumph the recently proclaimed dictator ... event held in ancient Rome.