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AUGUSTUS: FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 624 pages Caesar Augustus remains the person in the ancient world whose image is the most recognizable, surviving ...

Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c.62 BC – 14 AD / Reigned 31 BC – 14 AD) had to fight for his throne. His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty that ...

In his own words, Augustus found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. He restored 82 temples in the city, finished the forum of his adoptive father, Julius Caesar, built his own ...

In Rome during the 1st century B.C., Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew Octavian provoked and won a chaotic, decade-long power struggle in the republic, emerging victorious and intimidating the shaken ...

IF you like your Julius Caesar epics without too much of the messy reality associated with the great, sweeping drama that was real-life ancient Rome, “Empire” is the six-hour summer ser… ...

The Mausoleo di Augusto, which was built to house the remains of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, was once visible from all over the city. After 2,000 years of abandonment, it is finally being ...

A unique gold coin struck 2,000 years ago during the reign of Roman Empire founder Augustus Caesar has sold for £480,000. The coin was one of 22 ever made.