Known for initiating two centuries of peace in Rome, Augustus Caesar’s rise to political power was anything but amicable.

Mr. John B. Firth, the writer of "Augustus Caesar," tells his readers at the outset that Octavian, the grand-nephew of Julius Caesar, was a personage very difficult to understand.

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 ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to be exactly like Augustus Caesar, but he's only 60 percent there according to our math.

We know August as the eighth month of the year. For the ancient Romans, however, August was the sixth month. Then, 45 years before the birth of Christ, Julius Caesar shook things up among the toga ...

Jesus and Caesar shared many titles. Only one still rules the world. Terrance Klein December 21, 2023 Caesar Augustus and Salus Populi Romani on Wikimedia ...

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 ...

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 ...