Poetical theory in republican Rome.

Cleopatra gives birth to Caesar's son and takes him to republican Rome to persuade Caesar to declare himself King- with her son as heir.

Cicero has faced criticism for exaggerating the democratic qualities of republican Rome, and for defending the Roman oligarchy against the popular reforms of Caesar.

It was the first colony of republican Rome and became the home port for the Roman fleet.

The proskynesis had not even occurred to him; the custom of republican Rome was to bend the knee to no man.

Despite its flaws, it had given generations union, peace, and, on the whole, good government-ideals republican Rome professed, but failed to live up to.

The inspiration for this feat of unified urbanistic design lay, not in republican Rome, but in the Hellenistic monarchies of the eastern Mediterranean.

"Italy and Its Discontents" will dishearten those who cherish the ideals of civic society first evoked by republican Rome.

Coming from republican Rome, he had doubts about .

Yet over the last decade or so, several scholars have been nibbling away at republican Rome's undemocratic reputation, arguing that it was an imperfect but still recognizable democracy.