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 ...

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or "first citizen," of Rome in 27 B.C. and gave him the honorific name Augustus Caesar. Like their new emperor, Elon Musk and the other tech moguls see democratic politics as little more than a ...

Now, the discovery of this older villa, with architectural dates matching Augustus’s era, suggests we’ve finally located where the first Roman emperor actually lived and died. Caesar Augustus ...

In the first century B.C.E., decades of aristocratic overreach and the authoritarian violence of Augustus’s predecessors Sulla and Caesar brought Rome to the brink more than once, but Augustus ...

A 2,000-year-old garnet ring from ancient Rome that is believed to have an image of the first Roman emperor sold for nearly 600 times its expected price at a recent jewelry auction in England.

Historians' understanding of ancient Rome is still evolving as more ... misstated when Caesar was killed and when Augustus became emperor. Caesar was killed in 44 B.C., not A.D. 44, and Augustus ...

but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary. Julius Caesar had become Rome’s first dictator after 49 B.C., when the ...