I am rather fond of my native land and her robust and quirky republican traditions, but Jesus did not preach democracy nor ...

While Caesar was assassinated by a large group ... he was given the title "Augustus" as a religious station. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, this title was meant to contrast with ...

Rome was again threatened with chaos. New kid on the block Enter Augustus, Caesar's nephew and heir. An ambitious man from an average family, this was Augustus' big chance. With his ally ...

Early in his reign, Halley’s Comet passed over Rome. Augustus claimed it was the spirit of Julius Caesar entering heaven. If Caesar was a god then, as his heir, Augustus was the son of a god and ...

And it has been lying under a blanket of Vesuvian ash. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, reigned as Ancient Rome’s first emperor from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.

Clinging to the side of a sheer granite cliff, in the shadow of Mount Solaro, 1,000 feet above the sea and the cruise-ship docks at Marina Grande, this superlative boutique-hotel is perhaps the ...