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

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.

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

Torn between the futile noblity of Marcus Brutus, and the clear-eyed visions of Marcus Aurelius, the latter serves best as ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so ...

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

Could it be that we’ve crossed a Rubicon to a constitutional crisis?