Mark Antony began sharing an uneasy alliance with Gaius Octavian (Caesar’s grandnephew) and army general Marcus Lepidus as triumviral rulers of the Roman Empire. Looking to gain a powerful ...

Twas ever thus. Two thousands year ago, Gaius Octavian, the Roman statesman who with no sense of irony claimed to have “restored the Republic” while establishing a dynastic monarchy ...

But it wasn’t long before the people of Rome were fighting each other again! Until Gaius Octavius took power, becoming the first emperor, Emperor Augustus, which is when the republic became an ...