The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading ... Alarmed by his growing power, the Senate ordered Caesar to set aside his command. Caesar had no intention of obeying ...

The babies were added in the AD1400s. The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul.

Well, at that time all these places were part of the Roman Empire ... which is when the republic became an empire. The senate still gave advice, but the emperor, rather than the people had ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...