Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Nothing intimates the slow unravelling of the Roman empire quite like Jean-Paul Laurens’ portrait of Honorius ... and Ovid — a Rome shaped by Augustus Caesar. If Honorius marked the empire ...

But since Julius Caesar, his nephew the emperor Augustus, and all of the Roman emperors down to Nero traced their own ancestry back to Aeneas and through him to Venus, her cult emphasized romantic ...

Julius Caesar hustled for a succession of public offices during his rise to power because he needed to secure immunity from prosecution. Augustus ... his pen-portraits are organised by theme ...

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These portraits were found on the faces of mummies ... Cleopatra allied herself with Marc Antony against Octavian (Caesar Augustus) but was defeated, and Egypt came under Roman rule. Important urban ...

Ralph Touchett in the BBC One drama series The Portrait of a Lady, Octavius Caesar/Augustus in the 1970 epic historical war drama film Julius Caesar, Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky in the 1971 drama film The ...

Hadrian commissioned thousands of portraits and artifacts with his likeness (one of ... Horace, a poet during the time of Augustus, comments on the Roman conquest of Greece: “Conquered Greece took ...

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

It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and ...

His successor, Caesar Augustus, raised the sales tax to 4 percent. Hanke and Blustein warn that progressives like Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are following in Ceasar’s socialist ...