As Rome’s first emperor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar) (63 B.C.–A.D. 14) is best known for initiating the Pax Romana, a largely peaceful period of two centuries in which Rome imposed order on a world ...
Originally published in Germany in 1998, the late Prof. Bleicken’s life of Augustus was widely hailed as an outstanding achievement, but has only recently been rendered into English, they only one of ...
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The Lost Autobiography of Augustus Caesar?
How do we know what Augustus Caesar said about himself? In this ATG Highlights episode, we trace the discovery of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti—the remarkable text considered his personal account of his ...
Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. Trump, rather as Caligula or Nero did ...
Peter Stothard, The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 274 pp., $27.95. HISTORY IS mainly a matter of unforeseen outcomes yielding ...
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