The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants of another villa built above it many years later, may have been where Augustus, the first Roman emperor, drew his last ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome, a city that thinks in millennia, is going through a bout of "Augustus fever" to mark the 2,000th anniversary of the death of its first emperor, who left his mark on Rome and ...

He was Rome's first and arguably greatest emperor, a fine soldier and wise administrator who boasted that he found Rome built of bricks and left it cloaked in marble. But as the city prepares to ...

The Great Illyrian Revolt, erupting under Emperor Augustus, was one of the most serious uprisings faced by Rome in the early ...

A series of events have been announced to mark the 2,000th anniversary this month of the death of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor - an event that gave the month of August its name. Augustus, the ...

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 ...

Having fought his way into power, Augustus used religion as a tool to protect his position and promote his political agenda. Having gained power by force in a bitterly fought civil war, Augustus was ...

Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c.62 BC – 14 AD / Reigned 31 BC – 14 AD) had to fight for his throne. His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty that, over the ...

In a New Yorker profile, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described his fascination with the Roman emperor Augustus, who Zuckerberg praises for achieving 200 years of world peace, although it came through ...