Almost at once, however, Caesar was dead – murdered by his own advisors. Augustus was just 19, but immediately threw himself into the backstabbing world of Roman politics . Claiming the throne ...

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather simple tastes regarding food. This recipe from the first century makes a fresh, ...

or "first citizen," of Rome in 27 B.C. and gave him the honorific name Augustus Caesar. Like their new emperor, Elon Musk and the other tech moguls see democratic politics as little more than a ...

The social media platform Bluesky has begun selling a version of a shirt worn by CEO Jay Graber during her SXSW keynote, which called out Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with a Latin phrase.

Time for the Romans was divided differently, with the Kalends, the Ides at the start and middle of each month, respectively, and the Nones sitting between them. With the intention of maintaining and ...

Emperor Augustus was the first Roman emperor. He took control of the empire after a power struggle with Mark Antony following the assassination of Julius Caesar. His army conquered Spain and land ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, had been commemorated by the Romans as the first and greatest of their emperors: a ruler who laid the vast edifice of Roman power on such solid and ...

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero ...