Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor ... Octavian became Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE) or emperor. While he claimed to restore the republic, Augustus exercised ...

In 12 B.C., Augustus, at the height of his power ... as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure: a 13th-century monk from Colmar had apparently copied it from a Roman ...

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Although many of the potential readers of Tim Blanning’s latest book will not previously have heard of its hero – Augustus the Strong ... richest of all the princely families of the Holy Roman Empire ...

Roman buildings ... across the empire. But, despite constant patronage from the Roman elite, actors ranked among the dregs of society – little better than beggars. To give you a sense of their social ...

Consequently, in order to make August at least as long as July, Augustus stole one day from February (who would miss that!) and gave it to August—and here we are.” The Roman Empire has its ...

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once said, “be like the cliffs against which the waves break and break.” Here are the stories of eight nations who stood like cliffs against the might of Rome ...

A humorous TikTok trend last year revealed that average American guys think about the Roman Empire anywhere from once a month to several times a day. If you’re a guy, what will surprise you abou ...

Augustus himself visited Gaul several times to quell the frequent unrest in border areas. Map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in 116 AD. Credit: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 The territory was ...

From Augustus Caesar proclaiming himself the first emperor of Rome in 31BC to the fall of the empire in 476 AD, we’ve curated a selection of the best books about Roman history below. One of the ...