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

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Airing on TF1 on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 9:10pm, Alain Chabat's Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra has become a cult film in French cinema. Starring Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu and ...

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

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LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

Torn between the futile noblity of Marcus Brutus, and the clear-eyed visions of Marcus Aurelius, the latter serves best as ...

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 ...

February 14 is Valentine’s Day—a celebration of love and romance! Who was Valentine? There are several legends about ...

Passing over 14 centuries of religious intolerance and persecution, as Vice President JD Vance did in a recent speech, in ...