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

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

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

Trump’s open adoption of the imperial manner (issuing peremptory edicts, renaming geographical features, demanding the ...

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

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

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Sitting in Tom Holland’s study, I am puzzled. Looking around, I can see a suit of chain mail (a present from his brother and fellow popular historian James Holland), a mounted psittacosaurus fossil ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? A biography of Henry V by Dan Jones, and the life of Caesar Augustus by Adrian Goldsworthy. What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of?

The stepson and accused killer of Charlottesville entrepreneur Phaedrus Acgtblu had a fake suicide note and a to-do list for ...