When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Caesar scored some early victories and, by 46 BC, was dictator of Rome. After a year spent eliminating his remaining enemies, he returned home. Generous in victory, he was kind to his defeated ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

He came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny. How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.

Ms. Cargill-Martin is a writer and classical scholar. The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories. They love its ideals of hard, unbending masculinity. And they ...

In ancient Rome, crossing the Rubicon River with an ... Instead, he allowed a conspiracy to boil under him once he became dictator, resulting in his famous assassination. In order to lead, you ...