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When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.
Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...
President Trump’s actions are more far-reaching than Julius Caesar’s — and they have met less resistance than in Caesar's ...
Catholic and Orthodox churches celebrate Easter on the same date, Sunday, April 20. This coincidence last occurred in 2017 and will next happen in 2028. Both churches follow the same guiding ...
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 ...
What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus ...
With Augustus’ ascendance, the republic died, even as Augustus claimed to have restored it. But for historians, Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon, more than 20 years earlier, was the critical ...
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”).