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First emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Donald Trump has repeatedly been compared to a range of Roman figures—most commonly Nero, Caligula and Julius Caesar, but also Augustus, Claudius, Caracalla, Tiberius and even Commodus—by journalists,...
Yes: was within the orbit of Roman rule during the generation when is traditionally placed, governed under Roman authority via client kings such as and exposed to imperial administration like censuses...
In 47 BC Julius Caesar consolidated authority through a cluster of political acts after returning to Rome: he used censorial powers to swell the Senate’s membership, took administrative steps that tre...
The Nazareth Inscription is a Roman-period marble slab bearing a Greek imperial rescript that warns capital punishment for anyone who disturbs tombs or moves sepulchral stones; it entered scholarship ...
Aeneas is repeatedly presented as the model of Roman pietas — duty to gods, family and country — most famously when he carries his elderly father from burning Troy while leading his son and taking the...