Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

Patrician families made up the ruling class, meaning they were in jobs that had a lot of influence in how Rome and the empire were ruled. The majority of the population were known as plebeians and ...

Ranking immediately below senators, equestrians became an important human resource, whose work underpinned the smooth running of the Roman Empire. As its name suggests, the equestrian class was ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...