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

but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary. Julius Caesar had become Rome’s first dictator after 49 B.C., when the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ... to Egypt as Caesar’s great-nephew and heir, Augustus, teamed up with ...