Oscar-winning director Bille August, who recently scored a global hit with TV series “The Count of Monte Cristo,” is set for another high-end period show that this time will hark back to Ancient Rome ...

August has begun, which makes historians, and other people with nothing better to do, think of Augustus Caesar. He was the first Roman emperor, and had the month named after him. It was formerly ...

Augustus Caesar was a master of ‘fake news’. He controlled what his subjects heard. He rewrote history to suit his purposes. His fans lapped it all up. Notice any parallels? “Basically, through a ...

The figure of Livia Drusilla looms large in the history of Rome. For 50 years the wife of Julius Caesar’s adopted son, the emperor Augustus Caesar, she gave birth to another emperor, Tiberius, and ...