What’s more, the empire started through violence ... If an army grew dissatisfied, the emperor was in trouble; if dissatisfaction spread further, he was finished. Civil war had brought Caesar ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Accused of adultery with the emperor's niece, Julia Livilla, Seneca was banished to Corsica in 41 AD. He was already famous as a writer and thinker. He continued his work in exile, writing ...

I'm looking into the eyes of one of the most famous leaders ... Here's Boris Johnson again: "Augustus was the first emperor of Rome, and he created from the Roman Republic an institution that ...

Battle at the dawn of urban Vienna Historical records show that in the late 1st century, during the reign of the emperor Domitian, costly battles took place on the Roman Empire’s northern Danube ...