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Augustus uses Caesar’s deification to cement his rise to power
After Julius Caesar’s death the Roman Senate declared him a god, a decision that transformed the political landscape. This ...
AUGUSTUS: FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 624 pages Caesar Augustus remains the person in the ancient world whose image is the most recognizable, surviving to ...
Last Wednesday, as the sun was rising in Rome and ballots were being counted across America—but before any swing states had been called—I took a brisk walk to the mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus.
August has begun, which makes historians, and other people with nothing better to do, think of Augustus Caesar. He was the first Roman emperor, and had the month named after him. It was formerly ...
Archaeologists in central Italy have uncovered a marble head of Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of the Roman empire. The sculpture, which has lost its body and nose was discovered while renovating ...
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