An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

The Roman Empire's enduring legacy has profoundly impacted modern politics, architecture, law, and culture. Yet, its origins ...

Julius Caesar was the first living Roman emperor to put his mug on a coin, and the Donaldus is the most recent emperor to do so. Then there was the public (televised) signing of countless decrees ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

In Mary Beard’s book, she examines twenty-nine of ancient Rome’s emperors beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with ... she states her theme, “The Roman world was, in our terms, a cruel ...

Bunnik, the village where they were buried, was once along the northern border of the Roman Empire. It's the first ... including several of Julius Caesar and one with the face of Juba, the king ...

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...