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

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.

President Trump’s actions are more far-reaching than Julius Caesar’s — and they have met less resistance than in Caesar's ...

After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

A month later, 60 senators joined in a plot to kill Caesar, stabbing him to death on the Ides of March ... who took the name Augustus, “Revered One.” With Augustus’ ascendance, the republic ...

We are being tempted afresh to give our allegiance to men who wield great power and wealth in the hope that we will benefit ...

He remained in power until his death 45 years later. Autocracy was by then securely established on the ruins of the Roman republic, and Augustus was succeeded without question by his stepson ...

Historical drama transports audiences to the past with a combination of gripping storytelling, suspenseful battles, and realistic cultural backdrops.