The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women as equal ... view The trouble with Julia Julia was daughter to Emperor Augustus and was renowned as a clever, vivacious woman with ...

Ancient masters of engineering ... 33 B.C. After the chaotic civil wars Octavian (later Emperor Augustus) improves Rome’s water by building the Aqua Julia. 19 B.C. Marcus Agrippa, Augustus ...

Female members of the imperial family, the wives, daughters - and particularly - mothers of Roman emperors are ... sexual excesses. One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter ...