So, it may be a sanguine thought this week to consider that it was on New Year’s Day when Rome’s two consuls took their office for the year. Elected annually, and for centuries prohibited from serving ...

How can we define the significance of an ancient civilization? One obvious yardstick could be how proud its purported descendants are about it. A more valid criterion will be to see how its influence ...

Reviewed Work: Consuls of the Later Roman Empire by Roger S. Bagnall, Alan Cameron, Seth R. Swartz, K. A. Worp Phoenix, journal of the Classical Association of Canada, publishes scholarly papers ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The ancient sources mention speeches being delivered in the late Republic in contiones by both consuls-elect and tribunes of the plebs ...