Did Octavian, later known as the Roman emperor Augustus, have an affair with Julius Caesar? That’s precisely what Mark Antony ...

“Empire,” which debuts Tuesday on ABC with the customary “two-hour special” and runs its course in hour-long installments over the following four weeks, is a perfect summer entertainment, a melodrama ...

Octavian was now, in the year 31 BC, in a position that was utterly unprecedented. Civil war had troubled Rome for nearly twenty years, during which time the machinery of government was thrown into ...