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

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 ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome ... tradition of tying its history to Rome, the right’s leaders have embraced the aesthetic: a bust of Caesar for Steve Bannon, a pen name borrowed ...

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

When Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C., his adopted son Octavian, later renamed Augustus, rose to power ... to locate and save vestiges of ancient Rome's Via Aurelia in France.

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

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 ...