We take a look at the history of the Roman Senate and the fate of its surviving descendants. Are there any alive today? Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/invicta. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/hi....

In this history documentary we pose the question whether there are any surviving descendants of Roman senators alive today. We begin the story by looking at the origins of the Roman senate. They got their start in the earliest days of the Roman monarchy as the first 100 advisors to King Romulus. From there the body served the succeeding kings of Rome until participating in their eventual expulsion in 509 BC. During the Roman Republic the Senate would take on more formal powers and become one of the most important elements of the Roman government. We cover its continued evolution of the course of the Republic until the Roman civil wars of the 1st century BC when it would be heavily reformed by Sulla and Julius Caesar.

Next we cover its transformation during the Principate, Dominate, and Late Empire before finally discussing the fate of the Senate into the Medieval period and beyond. Watch to find out what happened to the Roman senators and be sure to let me know if you have any of your own shower thoughts worth investigating.

Credits:
Research: Invicta
Writing: Invicta
Narration: Invicta
Artwork: Beverly Johnson

Sources and Recommended Reading
"The Rise of Rome" by Anthony Everitt
"Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome" by Lesley Adkins
"The Notitia Dignitatum" translated by William Fairly
"The Roman Emperors" by Michael Grant
"Byzantium; Greatness and Decline" by Charles Diehl,
"Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" by Thorsten Opper
"Tacitus -Volume 15"

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