Pompeii: The Legacy, a narrative city-builder set in ancient Rome, enters Steam Early Access Sept 16! Demo available July ...

Class struggle isn’t a modern invention — it’s been with us for thousands of years. Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and ...

In effect, the Roman plebeians created a powerful direct citizen assembly. Eligible plebeian males gathered in person to propose, debate, and vote on laws and officials, instead of handing those ...

The collapse of the Roman Republic offers salutary lessons for those who wish to strengthen democracy. We should heed the lessons of history.

We’re talking, of course, about plebeians and patricians respectively, the two social levels of the Roman Republic along with the slaves and foreigners without citizenship. The plebeians, the ordo ...

In other words, Romulus selected a hundred people and elevated their socioeconomic status, thus originating the two classic strata of Roman society: the upper class constituted by the select ...

The plebeians were everyone else. Free Roman citizens, they were nevertheless only one step above slavery. Plebs were farmers, laborers and bakers.

The plebeians were everyone else. Free Roman citizens, they were nevertheless only one step above slavery. Plebs were farmers, laborers and bakers. Often a pleb would have a patronage relationship ...

A viscount is still a viscount; and the divisions between patricians and plebeians remained throughout ancient Roman history, even after practically all the legal differences had long been removed.