Beware the Ides of March? Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emerita Cynthia Lewis explores how prophets in Shakespeare's ...

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

TODAY marks the Ides of March, a day that proved disastrous for one unlucky Roman. Online bingo players often have ...

After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first imperial dynasty, the consuls ...

Tiberius Caesar had the unenviable task of succeeding his stepfather Augustus. He would always be a pale shadow of the ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Godzilla. Perhaps there is historical precedent. Cassius and Brutus slew Julius Caesar, but it was Octavian who eventually became emperor. In 1990, Michael Heseltine challenged Margaret Thatcher ...

Caesar's assassination would result in a long series of civil wars that ended in the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire. Eventually it led to the rise of his grand-nephew ...

Caesar’s adopted son and heir Octavian ultimately emerged victorious in the ensuing power struggles, and in 27 B.C.E., he took the new name Augustus and became Rome’s first emperor. With that, the ...

But men who have the souls of serfs are never satisfied until they have a means of expressing their serfdom. And if that has ...