Octavian was now, in the year 31 BC, in a position that was utterly unprecedented. Civil war had troubled Rome for nearly twenty years, during which time the machinery of government was thrown into ...

Meanwhile the Roman civil wars raged on, as tempers flared between Mark Antony, Caesar's protégé, and Octavian, Caesar's adopted son. Repeatedly the two men divided the Roman world between them.

On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar lay dead from 23 knife wounds inflicted by his assassins. The next day, the question on every Roman citizen’s mind was: Who will rule Rome now? Getting to the ...

IN VIRGIL’S AENEID, THE EPIC story of the founding of Rome, the Trojan foreigner Aeneas carries into battle a shield elaborately wrought by the divine craftsman Vulcan, a stand-in for the poet. On it ...

The Roman Republic ended when the Roman people decided to vote for Caesar. Of course, he carefully claimed he was not Caesar, but simple Octavian, man of the people, who sought nothing but to benefit ...

After more than 2000 years, what more can be said? Turns out plenty if the story the assassination of Julius Caesar. In “The Death of Caesar,” Barry Strauss, a history and classics professor from ...