Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

Pliny writes that Gaius Matius, a friend of Julius and Augustus Caesar, invented the art of clipping hedges for ornamental rather than strictly pragmatic purposes; Matius also translated The Iliad ...

wrote the poet Propertius in the age of Augustus Caesar. “Stranger ... now doubles as a gallery space for contemporary art. In a maze of vaulted arcades, where vendors once hawked Arabian ...

“Guests can enjoy a state-of-the-art race and sportsbook as well as ... crystal chandelier and a 15-foot-tall statue of Augustus Caesar at the front entrance. Raising the stakes: The property ...

A boy pulling a thorn from his foot became a popular symbol in ancient art. The imagery traveled ... the founder of the dynasty of Julius and Augustus Caesar. Many replicas of the early Grecian ...

To coax more contributions, Egyptian Culture Minister Abdel Kader Hatem is offering ancient art works ... Three of them: Dendur, dedicated by Caesar Augustus to two drowned heroes; Dabod.

A lesson on classical art shows how stories from the Book of ... "Two thousand years ago, when Augustus Caesar ruled the Roman Empire, a Jewish man who lived in Judea would ultimately have a ...

Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city all make Athens one of the most incredible cities in Europe. The capital of Greece is a ...

It is actually a sculpture of Augustus, Rome's first emperor. It's a sculpture that lives at the Vatican Museum, made of marble and dating back to roughly the first century C.E.” That Caesar salad ...

Credit: Walters Art Museum, licensed under CC0 ... created the foundation upon which the mighty Rome we know today was established. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavianus in Latin, was ...

Following the assassination of Julius Caesar, Antony established himself as one of the ... paved the way for Octavian to ascend to the Roman throne as the emperor Augustus, fundamentally changing the ...