highlighting how Roman historians often shaped narratives for political ends – something that may also apply to the accounts of Caesar’s death. For example, the infamous emperor Tiberius’ reputation ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling the Celts. At that time, the Roman Republic was protecting its new ...

The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius ... deaths of Augustus’ young heirs, he found himself primed to become the next caesar of Rome.

Octavian, Julius Caesar’s ... After Augustus’ death, the Roman Empire was plagued by a series of rulers who failed to live up to the political and social standards that Augustus had set. Augustus’ ...

This is an undated sketch of Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman. AP The civil war that followed his death eventually brought his great-nephew and adopted son, Octavian, to power. In 27 BCE, ...