As was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...

The date of January 1 for the New Year goes back to Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor who ruled a generation before Jesus was ...

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

One particularly good example of ‘damnatio memoriae’ involves Crispus, the first son of the Roman emperor Constantine the ...

The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from ...

New Years Day on January 1st is a time for renewal and optimism. It marks the beginning of a new year, a moment for ...

I welcome you with a Roman greeting: hic habitat felicitas - here lives happiness For those about to read, turn over the page if you are scrupulous... Friends, Romans, Maltese ...

A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius ... same day as Caesar’s murder. Brutus’ legacy beyond his plot to kill the emperor includes ...