Following Julius Caesar’s assassination, both Mark Antony and Octavian sought to position themselves as his political heirs ... “She reclined beneath a gold-spangled canopy, dressed as Venus in a ...

Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment of Caesar's assassination as well as performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Rome will mark the Ides of March and ... Eventually it led ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

Richard Chamberlain, who rose to early fame in "Dr. Kildare" and reached a career zenith in "Shogun" and "The Thorn Birds," ...

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

Following this, Octavian led the charge for formal recognition of Caesar’s apotheosis in 42 BCE with the title Divus Julius. Marcus Antonius benefited when he was named Caesar’s priest ...

Few figures in history have been as mythologised as Julius Caesar. The Roman general and dictator, assassinated in 44 BC, has inspired centuries of debate about his political ambitions, military ...

Richard Chamberlain, the sandy-haired TV heartthrob who starred on the popular 1960s medical drama “Dr. Kildare” and later ...

An overnight star as Dr. Kildare in the 1960s, he achieved new acclaim two decades later as the omnipresent leading man of ...