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 ...

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 ...

The senate still gave advice ... The coin leads Julia to consider the size and diversity of the Roman Empire. Julia discovers a coin showing the head of which Roman emperor?