Roman History

Brutus’s Motives and Ideals A Friendship Severed by Ideals The Ides of March, a date forever etched in the annals of history, conjures images of betrayal, ambition, and the bloody end of a powerful leader. Julius Caesar, the man who had conquered Gaul and reshaped the Roman Republic, fell victim to a conspiracy led by … Read more

Defining the Plebeians: The Other Half of Rome Who Were the Plebeians? The Roman Republic’s society was fundamentally stratified, split largely between two distinct social classes: the patricians and the plebeians. While the patricians, descended from Rome’s original founding families, held significant political and economic power, the vast majority of the population fell under the … Read more