From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...

When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for ... biographies is Adrian Goldsworthy’s excellent "Augustus: The First Emperor of Rome." His empire, political legacy, and ...

As was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...

One particularly good example of ‘damnatio memoriae’ involves Crispus, the first son of the Roman emperor Constantine the ...

American freedoms and creativity have given rise to an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity throughout the world.

Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...

Several emperors – including Nero ... and fallen out spectacularly with Caesar’s heir (Octavian, who would soon rename himself Augustus). Marc Antony was subjected to damnatio memoriae after ...

The Greek key design, also known as the meander, was used prolifically by the Ancient Greeks to adorn pottery, tiles, ...

The office of emperor was both invented by and first occupied by his great-nephew Augustus in 27 BC – 17 years after Caesar’s brutal murder. A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient ...