One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

And it was under his kingship that post-Biblical Israel really rose to its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire. Herod was a successful client king, which meant ...

Odoacer, a German warrior possibly of Sciri origins, becomes king of Italy, deposing the emperor on September 4. From that day, the Western Roman Empire ceases to exist. Relations between the ...

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. The emperor ruled over the Roman Empire, a bit like a king. Find out below about some of the emperors who influenced Britain.

Roman worship was divided into the public and ... was always the emperor. The king of sacred things The rex sacrorum, meaning “king of sacred things” was a patrician appointed for life and ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire and even of the Roman ... belief that the Byzantine emperor ruled as both king and pope, with no separation of church and state.

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. The emperor ruled over the Roman Empire, a bit like a king. Find out below about some of the emperors who influenced Britain.