From there she was instructed to assist Roman Commander Aurelius to plan the escape of 12-year old Romulus Augustus Caesar from a prison in Capri after his parents had been killed by the leader of ...

Romulus killed Remus ... usually to give authority to noble families. Gaius Julius Caesar was ascribed a divine lineage, which his successors also exploited. Legend has it that the son of Aeneas ...

From Augustus Caesar proclaiming himself the first emperor of Rome in 31BC to the fall of the empire in 476 AD, we’ve curated a selection of the best books about Roman history below. SPQR ...

Romulus wanted to build it on the Palatine Hill ... You can help us rate how impressive they were. First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor – he was just a really powerful ...

There was also precedent in Roman history – Aeneas and Romulus, who had helped found ... Augustus claimed it was the spirit of Julius Caesar entering heaven. If Caesar was a god then, as his ...

Romulus wanted to build it on the Palatine Hill ... You can help us rate how impressive they were. First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor – he was just a really powerful ...