Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

BCE, ancient Rome witnessed one of the most infamous betrayals in history, the assassination of Julius Caesar. Known as the ...

Following the assassination of Julius Caesar, Antony established himself as one of the ... paved the way for Octavian to ascend to the Roman throne as the emperor Augustus, fundamentally changing the ...

However, what came of the crime instead was a series of civil wars leading to the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, in 27 BC. The idea of a Roman Republic, the cause of Caesar’s death, was ...

AD: Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) becomes emperor of Rome. 1496: Birth of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII.

later known as Augustus, who became the first emperor of Rome in 27 BC. It also saw the deification of Caesar 14 months after his murder. To this day people still commemorate Caesar's death by leaving ...

Caesar’s adopted son and heir Octavian ultimately emerged victorious in the ensuing power struggles, and in 27 B.C.E., he took the new name Augustus and became Rome ... in the modern-day United ...