Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

In January of 27 BC, Gaius Octavius ostensibly gave the Roman ... without the odium which attaches to the name of 'king.'Maecenas, per Roman History, Cassius Dio Octavian officially announced ...

which she did with Augustus’s friend Marcus Agrippa. They had three sons, Gaius and Lucius Caesar and Agrippa Postumus, plus two daughters, Julia and Agrippina. Augustus actively favored his ...

Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome ... Deifying his great uncle and renaming himself Augustus, Octavian brought down the ancient world’s greatest Republic and rebirthed it an empire.