This alone ensured that the Senate and its members remained relevant and important. The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries ...

Of course, we know things eventually didn’t go so well for the Roman emperors ... So unless the Senate wants to accept being immediately and maybe permanently sidelined, it’s essential ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...