Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

The oversized tees are carbon copies of a shirt donned by Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, earlier this month at SXSW in Austin.

Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c.62 BC – 14 AD / Reigned 31 BC – 14 AD) had to fight for his throne. His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty that ...

Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a history buff at heart. In a recent New Yorker profile, the tech mogul revealed that his fascination with the ancient Roman emperor Augustus even figured into his ...

Clinging to the side of a sheer granite cliff, in the shadow of Mount Solaro, 1,000 feet above the sea and the cruise-ship docks at Marina Grande, this superlative boutique-hotel is perhaps the ...