HBO and the BBC’s Rome debuted in 2005 with aspirations to be one of the most accurate depictions of the Roman Republic’s turbulent transition into an Empire. With its sprawling narrative, the series ...

After Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE, Rome plunged into turmoil as competing factions fought for power. Mark Antony turned public opinion against the conspirators, forcing them to flee while ...

The folly of assassinations is that they generate the opposite of what the assassin intended. Aside from the tragedy of taking a human life, there is a pattern of how assassinations work against what ...