His father died when Augustus was four. His prospects were bleak: Rome was dangerous, engulfed by civil war between power-hungry factions. One of these was led by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar.

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Augustus was the first Roman emperor and led the transformation from republic to empire after his great-uncle and adoptive father Julius Caesar was murdered. He was born in 63 BC with the name ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c ... Without a son of his own, he needed an heir. Caesar quickly adopted his great nephew, Augustus. He also moved fast to strengthen the northern ...

The glory of Augustus is not quite as unalloyed as he wanted us to believe. Augustus was Julius Caesar's great-nephew. The assassination of Caesar in 44 BC left Augustus the heir to his fortune ...

Roman proconsul Julius Caesar conducts a series of military campaigns ... later becoming the Emperor Augustus. Under this brilliant, implacable leader, the new Roman Empire buried the old ...

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus/Octavian, ultimately became the first Emperor of Rome. The daughter of King Philip IV the Fair of France, she was born in the early 1290s and was married to Edward on ...

Julius Caesar squared off against his rival Pompey. And, of course, Augustus himself seized power through violence, and snuffed out his rivals along the way. But it's inaccurate to think of the ...