DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images Following the death of Caligula’s great-grandfather, Emperor Augustus, in 14 AD, his adopted son Tiberius became Rome’s emperor. Because Caligula’s ...

Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2) Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius. Show more 21 March 2025 Available now 57 minutes ...

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 ...

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather simple tastes regarding food. This recipe from the first century makes a ...

Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome. When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his ...

In A.D. 14 Augustus died, and Tiberius became Rome’s next emperor. Some believed, perhaps in bad faith, that Germanicus’s talents were overshadowing Tiberius, a diligent man who lacked his ...

The gospel reading for Trinity 20 in Year A is Matthew 22.15–22, the short exchange between Jesus and his opponents on the question of the Roman ‘poll’ tax. This has important theological implications ...

Previously on Daniel 11. We had this incredible verse that described exactly what Caesar Augustus did when it said: “ And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the ...