LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

A soldier of repute and a very able ex-consul, he had been left penniless by paying off ... which he did before retiring into private life. But Julius Caesar made himself dictator perpetuus – a ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

Brave New World’ says it’s about uniting against greater evils—and responds to the recent uproar over Anthony Mackie’s comments about the character.