It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and brutality Caesar Augustus had been championing.

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

His father died when Augustus was four. His prospects were bleak: Rome was dangerous, engulfed by civil war between power-hungry factions. One of these was led by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar.

Octavian, Julius Caesar’s great-nephew and adopted son ... In 27 B.C.E., Octavian ascended to the Roman throne as Augustus.

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

The outrage that followed set the stage for the civil wars that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the ...

The glory of Augustus is not quite as unalloyed as he wanted us to believe. Augustus was Julius Caesar's great-nephew. The assassination of Caesar in 44 BC left Augustus the heir to his fortune ...

Octavian the first emperor of Rome who was granted the title Augustus meaning the illustrious one How did this man become the heir of Julius Caesar who had died in the middle of his career This ...