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

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

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

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

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrestled with these same struggles, jotting down his thoughts in what became Meditations.

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

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second centuries, wrote in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars that Augustus ...

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Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...