When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is based on common misconceptions.

An empire is a group of lands all ruled from ... Over two hundred years and many wars and battles later, the Roman Republic grew to take over most of what is now Italy…and by 100BCE it had ...