Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the world will sing not to Octavian but to that frail little boy.

As Rome’s first emperor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar) (63 B.C.–A.D. 14) is best known for initiating the Pax Romana, a largely peaceful period of two centuries in which Rome imposed order on a ...

Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

Caesar Octavian Augustus, arguably the greatest political leader the world has known, is mentioned in Luke’s Gospel for initiating the census that prompted the Holy Family’s trip to Bethlehem.

Octavian Augustus began constructing his massive tomb in 28 B.C., just after returning from a military campaign in Egypt. With a diameter of about 87 meters (285 feet), ...

Yet — and here is where Augustus tried to knockoff the Olympian heritage — the origin of the “Lusus Troiae” stems from ancient Troy, antedating the sack of the city in the 12th century B.C ...

The 2,000-year-old floor was uncovered at the Pausilypon, an imperial villa that was inherited by Octavian Augustus and passed down to subsequent emperors, according to a news release from the ...

In Roman times, the theater followed the fate of the rest of the city, which gradually declined. With the founding of Nicopolis by Octavian Augustus in 31 BCE, a large part of the Lefkadians were ...

Scholars translating a Roman victory stele, erected in the Temple of Isis at Philae in Egypt in 29 BC, have discovered the Roman Emperor Octavian Augustus’ name inscribed in a cartouche – an ...