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

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

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 ...

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

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

and claimed the title of Caesar Augustus. In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how, under the influence of the first emperors, Rome rapidly developed into one ...

“You might be tempted to think it's an image of Julius Caesar. It is actually a sculpture of Augustus, Rome's first emperor. It's a sculpture that lives at the Vatican Museum, made of marble and ...

Proper beginnings of papacy can be traced to Leo I, the Great, who issued the doctrine of Petrine Primacy that declared the ...

In all likelihood, the fans filling the Roman Colosseum did their share of sneezing: Among the more famous seasonal-allergy sufferers was Caesar Augustus. But it was not until the late 19th century ...