Category: Augustus

2,000 year old book about Roman Emperors enters bestseller charts

Mar 10, 2025

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in Ancient Rome, Augustus, Everything Latin, History, Julius Caesar, Roman Britain, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Rome

by Ella Creamer published on Monday 24 February 2025 in The Guardian The Lives of the Caesars, translated from the Latin by Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals, and is a gossipy account of the lives of Roman emperors that has entered the bestseller charts – 2,000 years after it…
Cleopatra VII – Power, Romance & Rome

Nov 14, 2024

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in Augustus, Civil War, Egypt, Everything Latin, History, Julius Caesar, Roman Empire, Roman Republic

Bust of Cleopatra VII in the Altes Museum, Berlin Her full name was Kleopatra VII Thea Philopator, the title Kleopatra, is Greek for ‘Glory of her Father’, and she was the seventh female in the royal dynasty of Egypt to be called a Kleopatra. Although she was born in Egypt, she could trace her family…