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When Augustus died in his bed at a ripe old age, the Roman Senate made him a god. This seems an honor that even the most sycophantic U.S. senators would be unlikely to suggest for our president.
Ancient Rome refers to a city that became the center of an empire that flourished for roughly 600 years. ... power became concentrated in the hands of Augustus and his successors. Map of ancient Rome.
Augustus has been hailed for 20 centuries as the humble, benevolent founder of the Roman empire, a man who declined honors, was careful to uphold the trappings of the old Roman republic and styled ...
The Mausoleo di Augusto, which was built to house the remains of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, was once visible from all over the city. After 2,000 years of abandonment, it is finally being ...
The Augustus of Prima Porta statue is among the well-known artifacts from Ancient Rome. The marble statue depicts the first Roman emperor, Augustus, dressed in military attire with his arm raised in a ...
For centuries, Rome, Italy, has been a city of great importance. Once the center of the ancient Roman empire, today it’s one ...
In the new book, The Rise of Rome, author Anthony Everitt tracks Rome's ascension from a small market town to the greatest empire in the ancient world. Along the way, he traces the rise of some of ...
A ring believed to contain an image of Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome, sold for $145,000 in a recent auction in Birmingham, England. The initial estimate was well below that figure.
The ancient historian elaborated that Livia put her husband, Emperor Augustus, under her control, and banished or had killed every potential heir to the throne in order to promote her own son ...
Ancient Roman society was “extremely, extremely patriarchal,” he said, and was dominated by such alpha males as Julius Caesar and Augustus, its first emperor. But that’s far from the whole ...