"The real representatives of Augustan society ... and listened with rapture to Bossuet and Fenelon." What did Augustus Caesar look like? Are we to question the statues of the man?

But the shocking scenes have nothing on Livia's compelling real-life story that ... Lucius and Gaius Caesar, Julia's sons and grandsons of Augustus, also died mysteriously abroad.

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 ...

Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

But he knew that the Senate still viewed him with suspicion. Augustus was very aware of the bloody fate of his uncle, Julius Caesar, when senators suspected him of trying to create a dynasty of ...

Augustus Caesar, in 13 B.C., worried that retired soldiers ... the budgets of cities and states have been decimated: first, the real-estate collapse hurt property-tax revenues; then, federal ...

Of course, this is easier to say about Augustus than it is of Zuckerberg. Caesar ruled for over half a century, set up institutions and a template that lasted 200 years after that, and quite ...