When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

wrote the poet Propertius in the age of Augustus Caesar. “Stranger ... Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

The months of the year are named after Roman words - including 'June' from the goddess Juno, 'July' from Julius (Caesar) and 'August' from Augustus (Caesar). Ancient Rome has also influenced the ...

In a recent New Yorker profile, the tech mogul revealed that his fascination with the ancient Roman ... Julius Caesar squared off against his rival Pompey. And, of course, Augustus himself seized ...