Its ruler had no choice but to court the most powerful Roman of the day—a bewildering assignment in the late Republic ... ultimately faced off at Actium, a battle less impressive as a military ...

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic ... Cleopatra at the battle of Actium in 31 B.C ...

Yet despite these upheavals, the Pax Romana symbolized a shift toward stability after the tumultuous end of the Roman Republic. The Pax Romana ... Octavian and Antony’s forces clashed at the Battle of ...

and the Roman general Mark Antony remains unknown. After Julius Caesar’s assassination, Antony allied with Octavian but later rebelled, seeking control over Egypt and Rome’s eastern territories. They ...

Donald Trump’s destruction of America’s 249-year-old constitutional republic and ... defeated him in the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., winning the loyalty of more Roman legions.

The naval battle of Actium went down in history as the symbol of the end of the Roman Republic and the founding act of the Empire. After his victory, Octavian would become Augustus, the first emperor ...

Centuries of votive offerings cast into a lake in Denmark and other archaeological discoveries have revealed that barbarian warriors may have indulged in psychotropic drugs to stimulate themselves ...

It is the collapse of the Roman Republic, which developed over some four centuries and disappeared almost suddenly when the Senate granted Octavian extraordinary powers in 27 BCE – he renamed ...

Extent of the Roman Empire under Augustus. Credit: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 When Augustus, after defeating Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE ... to quell the frequent unrest in border areas. Map ...

When Tiberius became emperor, he commissioned Germanicus to reestablish Roman influence east of the Rhine River after the Germanic tribes defeated the Roman legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg ...

The rams were mounted at the front of Roman warships to collide with enemy ships and cause them to sink. It's believed this rostrum was used during the Battle ... the Roman Republic in the third ...