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

Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c.62 BC – 14 AD / Reigned 31 ... At the age of 32, he had become Rome’s first Emperor, promising to restore peace and security. Winning the war had been difficult ...

The Emperor of Rome was already the ... Early in his reign, Halley’s Comet passed over Rome. Augustus claimed it was the spirit of Julius Caesar entering heaven. If Caesar was a god then ...

I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders in the history of the world - Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor. We have his bronze head here in the Roman galleries in the ...

Of course, this is easier to say about Augustus than it is of Zuckerberg. Caesar ruled for over half a century, set up institutions and a template that lasted 200 years after that, and quite ...

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At the age of 36, the autocratic Augustus Caesar became Emperor and protector of some 50 million souls who inhabited a ...

After more than a decade 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 republic, Augustus exercised ...

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

Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants doing his bidding would be seductive. But in fact, Roman emperors ...