It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and brutality Caesar Augustus had been championing.

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”).

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

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

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

1. Caecilia – Blind 2. Cassius – Empty, or vain 3. Claudia – Lame, or limping 4. Cornelia – Horn 5. Crispin – Curly-haired 6.

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

They were masters of ancient Rome – powerful, ruthless military generals who ... Following the deaths of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, the victorious Octavian changed his name to Augustus Caesar and ...

The world does not need another general biography of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor from 31 BC till his death ... The reason is that the ancient sources are interested in character only in as far as ...