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

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.

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

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 ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

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 ...

Navigate forward to interact with the calendar and select a date. Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates. Navigate backward to interact with the calendar and ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...