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Explore the legend of Rome’s first king. Explore his reign from 753–716 BC, his early life, the founding of Rome, key achievements, and lasting impact on Roman history.

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Cicero lived at a time when Rome’s long-standing republican institutions were unravelling. Strongmen concentrated power in ...

For Romans, Augustus was the saviour who ended civil war; Tacitus reveals how power and propaganda traded liberty for the Pax ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...