Julius Caesar was already associated with the Divine during his life. But two years after his death, he was officially ...

In 31BC, Augustus Caesar, known at the time as Octavian, became the first Emperor of Rome at the young age of 32 with the promise to restoring peace and security. Following his decisive victory over ...

Donald Trump’s destruction of America’s 249-year-old constitutional republic and civic culture follows a historically familiar pattern that includes two especially striking precedents — one ancient, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The first emperor's name is invoked more often by Ovid than by any other poet of the Augustan age. For this reason alone he might justly be ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a history buff at heart. In a recent New Yorker profile, the tech mogul revealed that his fascination with the ancient Roman emperor Augustus even figured into his 2012 ...