One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Democracies are notoriously fragile. Athenians who lived some two generations after fending off Persian invaders in 480 BC would affirm as much. After a meteoric rise to superpower status in the fifth ...