Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
The play is a poignant, one-act portrait of an unmoored and drifting ... having played the title character in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” at the Gamm Theatre, and Pa Joad in John Steinbeck ...
Nearly 300 of the Roman coins are silver denarii, minted between 200 B.C. and 47 A.D. Some of those coins are stamped with unique portraits, including several of Julius Caesar and one with the ...
A few centuries later, Julius Caesar was the first Roman leader to have his portrait on a coin while he was still alive, one denarius minted just days before his murder in 44 B.C., the museum said.
In the 17th century, when the monetary system was in turmoil due to the Civil War, many tradesmen made their own money, known as tokens. In the Basingstoke area some 13 tokens of different designs ...
Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...
Massive Levantine-Egyptian stone head of a pharaoh, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Likely from a monumental sphinx, wearing royal 'nemes' headdress ...
And he has removed the portrait of Gen. Mark Milley from the Pentagon wall ... Shakespeare, turning history into great poetry, comes to mind after all. In “Julius Caesar,” knowing that his funeral ...