Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders in the history of the world - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. We have his bronze head here in the Roman galleries in the ...

Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors.

Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

instead, it plunged Rome into another civil war, with the victor, Caesar’s adopted son and heir – Octavian – becoming Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

Almost at once, however, Caesar was dead – murdered by his own advisors. Augustus was just 19, but immediately threw himself into the backstabbing world of Roman politics . Claiming the throne ...

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

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Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

According to Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, the city of Rome was founded in April 753BC. and was formed from settlements gathered around the River Tiber. The early inhabitants of Rome were ...