In Rome during the 1st century B.C., Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew Octavian provoked and won a chaotic, decade-long power struggle in the republic, emerging victorious and intimidating the shaken ...

The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from ...

Octavius had come to the throne in the wake of the civil wars, which had followed the assassination of his uncle Julius Caesar, whose name and title “Augustus” he had assumed.