Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

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

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

In the later republic, some of those men—notably, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus—grew ... Rome’s senators legitimately feared death if they broke with him; Augustus certainly had a lot of people ...

After more than a decade of civil wars following Caesar’s murder in 44 BCE, Octavian became Augustus (27 BCE–14 ... In 96 CE, Domitian was killed in a conspiracy of the court chamberlain.

right down to Ptolemy XV (also known as Caesarion), the son of Cleopatra by Julius Caesar. That last, unhappy scion of the Egyptian royal house was killed on the order of Octavian (later Augustus ...