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...Above all, it describes how the despotism Augustus created, and within which his successor Caesars lived, actually worked....
...For them, the real “Mona Lisa” is Liberty holding a torch and an olive branch, an image conceived by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1907 and used for the double-eagle gold $20 coin in 1933....
...Simply switching the word “fat” for “enormous” doesn’t change the fact that Augustus Gloop is the butt of the joke for being large....
...She describes the network of cisterns created two millennia ago on Ventotene by the Romans to harvest rainwater, and the legacy of Giulia Maggiore – Julia the Elder, the only biological child of Caesar Augustus...
...Still, the honour code leaves Livia (Kasia Smutniak) a lot of leeway in this romping series, in which the wife of Augustus Caesar, mother of the emperor Tiberius, is bad-ass....
...For Augustus — then still known more humbly as Octavian — Julius Caesar’s assassination changed everything....
...This family archive holds powerful tales, not least the journey of Augustus Thomson — enslaved name, Caesar — from Jamaica to London to confront his owner with an account of his unjust treatment, including...
...or even Augustus would satisfy too many of the current rules on the source of wealth....
...’s assassination and foolishly underestimates Octavian — the ruthlessly ambitious young man who will become Caesar Augustus....
...Rome under Virginia Raggi would hardly make Caesar Augustus proud. Mr Salvini’s negatives are entirely more pernicious....
...heir Octavian, later the emperor Augustus....
...The most famous bit of statistical methodology ever known is of course in the New Testament: “ And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should...
...The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC had indeed jolted the Roman world. And the dissolution of the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Lepidus and Marc Antony portended greater strife....
..., Caesar’s adopted son and self-styled successor....
...The rest, as the future Caesar Augustus might have said, is history. Let me clarify one matter: fake news is not the same as mistaken reporting or lazy journalism that requires correction....
...Sir, Rosario Iaconis (Letters, March 8) makes an effective case for Augustus being a prudent administrator as well as innovator for the government of the Roman empire....
...Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, by Tom Holland, Little, Brown, RRP£25 / Doubleday, RRP$30, 512 pages Richard Miles teaches ancient history at the University of Sydney....
...According to Michael Grant in his History of Rome, Caesar Augustus “felt and encouraged a new patriotic feeling for Italy, echoed by Virgil’s insistence on the country’s identity”....
...Noted US game theorist Richard Arnold Epstein, meanwhile, has traced Europe’s first-known public lotteries to the time of Augustus Caesar, deployed to raise funds for repairing the city of Rome....
...As Caesar and Augustus knew only too well, a personality cult will never successfully penetrate public minds if it is too focused on itself....
...Whatever the voters decide in Lombardy, the next occupant of Palazzo Chigi ought to heed the wisdom of an ancient predecessor, Caesar Augustus: “May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing...
...Much more attractive than Horace’s measured, ambivalent support of Augustus’s Pax Romana were romantic young rebels such as Catullus, who said he did not care whether Caesar was pale or swarthy, or Propertius...
...AD, Matthew Dennison’s The Twelve Caesars offers updated pen portraits of Rome’s rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian....
...As St Luke describes it at the start of the Nativity story: “In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.”...
...By the time of Caesar Augustus, this political unity had become a cultural one as well....
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