Professor Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus – better known to us as Caligula. Caligula has now become known as ...

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

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

So, what caused this mighty empire to crumble into ruins? The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared himself as the first Roman emperor. The official date of the Roman empire’s ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...