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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.

In 44 B.C. a young man arrived at the home of Mark Antony. The young man's great-uncle had recently been killed and he, having been named heir, had come to Rome to put the family's affairs in order.

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 ...

Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...