roman repubic

Triarii were one of the elements of the early Roman military manipular legions of the Roman Republic. They were the oldest and among the wealthiest men in the army and could afford high quality equipment. They wore heavy metal armor and carried large shields, their usual position being the...

The Roman Republic fell because of the Marian reforms which abolished the militia system of soldiers equiping themselves who loyal to the Republic and replaced them with soldiers recruited by the generals transferring the army's loyalty to the generals who used it to take power away from the...

What if despite still being ambushed and stabbed by a mob of senators, Caesar clings to life, nursed back to health in seclusion by loyalists? What would the fallout be of a few months of instability as people are unsure of what is going on, rumours spread about his assassination and supposed...

Julius Caesar had a daughter who named Julia Caesaris. She was married off to Pompey, and they had a very happy and loving marriage together despite the large age difference between the two. She died in 54 BC while she was pregnant, with the gender of the child being unknown. Pompey and Caesar...

Hello world... In OTL, Philip V of Macedon made an alliance with Carthage during the Second Punic War. This alliance only stayed on paper but, nevertheless, the Romans sent forces across the Adriatic to keep Philip busy while they were fighting Hannibal. This was the beginning a series of wars...

Let's say the Roman Republic remains a republic instead of becoming an empire with reforming to ensure long term stability like having a plan of succession of power, leaving land that provides no resources and consolidates its losses to ensure it stays afloat for a while. While Britain, Russia...

Could be a period as far back as the founding of Rome? What reforms and changes could they implement to ensure their survival in the long term?

Gaius Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC the final century of the Roman Republic. these were troubled times the grand power which had emerged as top dog of the Mediterranean was now succumbing to rot. At its foundations rising economic inequality, the consolidation of power and the deterioration...

What circumstances could lead to the Roman Republic successfully conquering all of the Italian Peninsula, the Po Valley and the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica (so basically modern Italy's borders + Corsica), but not having any significant expansion beyond these core territories (as in...

Would they still have the main heads of the republic named Consuls?

"It has often been said that history is a series of gambits and ambitions, of men and women seizing the day and driving forth through impossible circumstances to carve works of art, vast political dynasties, and even entire moral and philosophical systems that have affected us for thousands of...