[Read: The man who sacked Rome] An ambitious and ruthless political operator such as Augustus provides opponents with only so ...

It was under Augustus that Rome first began to look ... Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has been turned into ...

the Romans erected a monument to the emperor Augustus. Clay McLachlan Bruno Tassan wages a tireless campaign to locate and save vestiges of ancient Rome's Via Aurelia in France. Tassan discovered ...

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... their deaths and the family of Augustus traced their roots back to ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women as equal to ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four ...

One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While Messalina, Claudius’ first wife, is said to have taken part in a ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain ... begins with the death of Emperor Augustus in 14AD and finishes with Nero's suicide 54 years later.

The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...

Ancient thought had a tendency to view ... Autocracy was by then securely established on the ruins of the Roman republic, and Augustus was succeeded without question by his stepson, Tiberius.