It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and brutality Caesar Augustus had been championing.

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

Commentators love to compare Donald Trump’s norm-breaking ways to Julius Caesar ... Rome’s first emperor, Caesar’s great-nephew Octavian, who took the name Augustus, “Revered One.” ...

Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

Of course, Julius Caesar was never an emperor ... of civil wars following Caesar’s murder in 44 BCE, Octavian became Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE) or emperor. While he claimed to restore the ...

Julius Ceasar, democratic socialist ... tax — a 1 percent flat rate applied across the empire. His successor, Caesar Augustus, raised the sales tax to 4 percent. Hanke and Blustein warn that ...

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

Catholic and Orthodox churches celebrate Easter on the same date, Sunday, April 20. This coincidence last occurred in 2017 ...

The 1st century BC marked the last days of the Roman Republic and creation of the province of Lusitania as part of the ...