When the Western Roman Empire fell, its influence endured - reshaped and reasserted by those eager to carry its mantle. In ...

Trump’s imperial golden age Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to the Romans.

Mark Zuckerberg’s admiration of Augustus is famous. He recently gave up his “Caesar” haircut for young–Marcus Aurelius curls and wears big T-shirts printed with Latin slogans.

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 ...

Bluesky’s ‘World Without Caesars’ T-Shirt Sells Better Than Its Domain Service Bluesky is making more money from T-shirt sales than through its custom domain service.

Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, had been commemorated by the Romans as the first and greatest of their emperors: a ruler who laid the vast edifice of Roman power on such solid and ...

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 ...

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather simple tastes regarding food. This recipe from the first century makes a ...

It would not be a democracy but something more like the imperial Rome of Augustus Caesar. This is surely the right-wing epic lurking in their allusions: Out of a period of civil strife emerges a ...

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the world will sing not to Octavian but to that frail little boy.