Republic of Venice: Did you mean...?

This map depicts the territories under Julius Caesar and Roman Senate in the wake of the outbreak of Caesar's Civil War in 49 BCE in the Roman Republic. Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome while Pompey, supported by the Senate...

Sam Houston, painting by unknown artist, 1836. Sam Houston (1793-1863), propelled by his victory at the Battle of San Jacinto and defeat of the Mexican army in the Texas Revolution, became the first president of the Republic of Texas, a...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian violin virtuoso and composer of baroque music (c. 1600-1750). Best known for his violin concertos, notably The Four Seasons, Vivaldi made a significant contribution to the evolution of instrumental...

In the wake of the downfall of the Western Roman Empire and the intellectual collapse of Athens, Byzantine scholars engaged in preserving the Classical Greek language and its literature. Thus they became the guardians of a vanished culture...

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus fragment of Plato's dialogue of Republic in ancient Greek.

This gold aureus is one of the first Roman portrait coins. Roman Republican coins did not usually depict living people, although a statue of the politician Sulla appeared on a coin during his lifetime. The son of Pompey the Great adapted...

The Latin Edition cover of Plato's dialogue of Republic, 1713

This is one of the first Roman portrait coins. Roman Republican coins did not usually depict living people, although a statue of the politician Sulla appeared on a coin during his lifetime. The son of Pompey the Great adapted a traditional...

The War of the First Coalition (1792-1797) was a continent-spanning conflict in which a coalition of European powers, including Austria, Prussia, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and several others, sought to contain and defeat Revolutionary...

Before the Roman Empire, there was the Roman Republic, but how did the Roman Republic begin? Before Julius Caesar, Augustus and Antony and Cleopatra there was the Roman Republic, which got rid of the Kings of Rome, which began as Etruscan...