Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

The 12 Caesars whose lives constituted the theme of his collection were enshrined for medieval Europe as the very archetypes of emperors. And so they remain to this day. That Rome tends to live more ...

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s pair of novels about imperial Rome. Incredibly, it’s almost half a ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

"When Numa Pompilius took reign [of Rome], he decided to make the calendar more accurate by lining it up with the year’s 12 lunar cycles ... Then came Julius Ceasar. Caesar adds 10 days ...

The modern calendar has Roman Catholic roots. As the sun does not adhere exactly to the earthly calendar, leap days are ...

This Italian gem is bringing handmade pasta, skyline views and Roman Empire vibes — because who doesn’t love a little Caesar with their ... We have about 12 pastas, they are completely homemade.

"When Numa Pompilius took reign [of Rome], he decided to make the calendar more accurate by lining it up with the year’s 12 lunar cycles ... Eventually, during Julius Caesar's rule, the ...

Rome is easily the closest thing you'll ever ... the remains of the Theatre of Pompey – the very place where Julius Caesar was stabbed. The stumpy remains of four temples are visible – one ...