Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

Cleopatra's was an honorable death ... Museum / Art Resource, NY The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra was a daughter of Egypt – part of the Macedonian-Greek-Ptolemaic Dynasty that had ruled since the death of Alexander ... depiction of Caesar meeting Cleopatra, by artist Giovanni Domenico ...

Julius Caesar’s conquest of France, Britain, and Germany, and his assassination of the Roman leader Pompey (in 48 BCE), had him emerge as the unrivaled leader of the Roman world. Julius was ...

It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and ...

Before Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, the Roman year followed a 10-month, 304-day lunar calendar. As a result, the calendar fell quickly out of sync with the passage of the Earth ...

Austin Shakespeare is bringing a fierce and fearless production of JULIUS CAESAR to Zilker Hillside Theatre this spring, running May 15–25. In a dynamic twist on Shakespeare’s gripping ...

Credit: CONTRIBUTED Credit: CONTRIBUTED “Julius Caesar” Adapted by Caitlin McWethy ... the journey of folk-rock duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Their story is told from their humble ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling the Celts. At that time, the Roman Republic was protecting its new ...

Ecuador has declared a state of “maximum alert” over an assassination plot against President Daniel Noboa. In a statement entitled “The revenge of the bad losers” issued early on Saturday ...