What Pope Leo XIV decides to do will be interesting in any case, and his decisions (or indecisions) are sure to be parsed by ...

Vying for social influence and top-tier gossip in the Hamptons? The Romans were just like you — but they liked drowning ...

Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

The Battle of Philippi in 42 B.C.E. was one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts in Roman history, marking the final ...

Eventually, Octavian, Caesar’s grand-nephew and adopted heir, would rise from the chaos as Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. The republic was forever lost.

The most familiar face is definitely Julius Caesar himself, played by Ciarán Hinds. Thrones fans will recognize him as Mance Rayder, the King Beyond The Wall.

Once in power, however, Augustus Octavian Caesar who claimed only to be “First Citizen” was soon followed by the likes of Caligula and the degeneration of Rome into a cesspool of lawlessness ...

Seizing power was Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, who went on to rule Rome for nearly 40 years as the Emperor Augustus. And if you think it's all ancient history, not so fast.

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.

The year after Caesar’s death, in 43 B.C., Octavian, Caesar’s great-nephew and protégé, formed the Second Triumverate with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, a Roman general and statesman, and Mark ...