An Overview of the Roman Senate. The Roman Republic emerged in 509 B.C.E. following the expulsion of its long-standing monarchy. Critical to the Republic’s foundation was an emphasis on forming ...

When Augustus died in his bed at a ripe old age, the Roman Senate made him a god. This seems an honor that even the most sycophantic U.S. senators would be unlikely to suggest for our president.

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney general ranks next to the story of Roman Emperor Caligula deciding to nominate his horse, Incitatus, as a consul.

Titled “Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii” (“The ‘Pumpkinification’ of the Deified Claudius”), it recounts how the Roman Senate declared that the dead Emperor was now a god, complete with ...

“Julius Caesar did not seize power in Rome,” Byrd declaimed on the Senate floor in 1993. “The Roman Senate thrust power on Caesar deliberately, with forethought, with surrender, with intent ...