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

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

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire, and ...

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

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

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.

3) The title "Keisar," or "Caesar," originating in Latin, served as the family name of the powerful dictator of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar (100 BCE—44 BCE), who lived 130 years before the ...

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

Augustus was Rome’s first emperor ... In the later republic, some of those men—notably, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus—grew so extraordinarily rich and influential that they began to ignore the ...

Before Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, the Roman year followed a 10-month, 304-day lunar calendar. As a result, the calendar fell quickly out of sync with the passage of the Earth ...