# Augustus
Little-Known Ancient History Facts
Weird as we might think the world is getting today, it probably doesn’t come anywhere close to the odd, fascinating,…
Here’s the Scoop on this Dysfunctional Dynasty in History
Few ruling families have been as dysfunctional, perverse, or given to more intra-familial murders, than the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled…
10 of History’s Greatest Kingmakers
The term "kingmaker" was first applied during the Wars of the Roses to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, who…
What Battle Was Like for a Roman Soldier in the Imperial Army Will Amaze You
The Roman army was one of the longest surviving and effective fighting forces of all time. It survived centuries of…
Tremendous Lives and Dramatic Deaths of Twelve Roman Caesars
For the Romans, the way you shuffled off your mortal coil was just as important as the way you bore…
The Man Behind the Man: 8 Great Commanders Who Stood in the Shadows of Legendary Leaders
History is littered with the names of outstanding leaders such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan. But…
The Emperor Caligula and his Unlikely Role Model
If there was one foreign ruler who, through the sheer extent of his achievements, managed to capture the imagination of…
The Rise and Fall of Roman Britain
The Romans first turned their attention to Britain in 55 BC when Julius Caesar launched raids in the South-East of…
The Troubled Reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius
Ruling over such a tract of territory as vast as the Roman Empire is challenging enough; doing so when your…
The Scandalous Love Lives of 8 Roman Emperors
If you only need to know one thing about Roman attitudes towards sex, it’s that they've given us our word…