Pharaoh Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Credit: Carole Raddato / Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 The only daughter of Cleopatra VII Cleopatra Selene, the sole daughter of Queen Cleopatra VII, was ...

When Augustus died, (14 A. D.,) according to the Roman custom, his will was exposed on certain bronze pillars standing on the sides of the mausoleum. These pillars and the will vanished centuries ago.

Shall beset our cities. According to this paean, Augustus initiated a time of agricultural abundance, societal security, and political dominion and peace: a golden age. Such sentiments are echoed by ...

Marcus Terentius Varro is occasionally referred to as Varro Reatinus to differentiate him from his peer Publius Terentius Varro Atacinus; Reatinus and Atacinus are cognomina indicating their ...

Book extract World Europe History What Trump has in common with the Caesars Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as ...

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 Caesar, originally named Gaius Octavius, was the great-nephew of Julius Caesar. Born on September 23, 63 BCE, Augustus was distantly related to Julius through his mother, Atia, who was ...

A s alter egos go, Augustus Caesar is not a bad one for Mark Zuckerberg, pontifex maximus of Meta, owner of the Facebook family of apps. Both men started their march to power as teenagers.

In 2024 AD, Barron Trump turned 18 and began attending some of his father Donald Trump's campaign events. In 44 BC, following his adoptive father Julius Caesar's death, Augustus Caesar launched a ...

No expense was spared regarding the design, which features exotic marble, polished wood and even an ancient statue of Augustus Caesar from the Torlonia Marbles collection, whose restoration Bulgari ...