An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

At that time, the Senate named Julius Caesar “dictator,” and after he defeated Pompey, he “used his victory in the civil war to take sole control of Rome’s government.” The Republic was ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

From David Potter, Francis W Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

I was troubled during the second Trump inaugural so few observers were disturbed by the rogue’s gallery of the nation’s ...

The death of the republic was accelerated by Caesarism; or in the case of Rome, it was literally by Julius Caesar as dictator, and then by first emperor Augustus who kept up the veneer of ...

Propaganda Kremlin mouthpiece Karen Shakhnazarov praised Putin for his 'intrigues' and shrewd politcking, before laughing at ...

The paintings portray Trump as the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, as a Greek Titan ... originally built as a museum to Albanian Communist dictator Enver Hoxha. It runs until January 26.

House Republicans have "boxed themselves into a corner" with a government shutdown fast approaching this month, having ...