The Fall of the Roman Republic. By Mary Beard Last updated 2011-03-29. ... At the end of the century Gaius Marius, a stunningly successful soldier, defeated enemies in Africa, ...

The waterway, known as the Marius Canal, was built around 2,100 years ago within the Rhône River delta. It was the first major Roman water hydraulic feature in what was then Gaul, preceding dams ...

Gaius Marius (157 - 86 BC) is credited with a number of reforms responsible for formalising trends which had long been developing in the recruitment and organisation of the Roman army. Under ...

In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. Buy Now ...

Man searching for artifacts with a metal detector in Poland discovered a 2,000-year-old silver coin from the Roman Republic, officials say. ... the monogram of Gaius Marius.

A n ever more unequal society loses its links to democracy. Wealth is good. Excess wealth distorts. Those were the lessons of the last years of the Roman republic 2000 years ago. They are still ...

The Fall of the Roman Republic. By Mary Beard Last updated 2011-03-29. ... At the end of the century Gaius Marius, a stunningly successful soldier, defeated enemies in Africa, ...