AUGUSTUS: FIRST EMPEROR OF ROME By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 624 pages Caesar Augustus remains the person in the ancient world whose image is the most recognizable, surviving to ...

What’s in a name? Quite a lot really, especially for the Romans. Take the emperor Augustus for instance who changed his name more times than Cheryl Cole… Tweedy ...

His handsome and eternally youthful face topped with blond curls in imitation of Alexander the Great – more images survive of Caesar Augustus than any other human being from the ancient world. Like ...

In our review last week of Lucien Polastron's book on libraries we said that Augustus had destroyed the Alexandrian library in 48BC. Since the lad, then called Octavian, was only 15 at the time, he ...

There’s a well-mannered, tea-drinking Oxbridge elephant in the room with any modern biography of the Roman emperor Augustus — and Adrian Goldsworthy, also the author of the best-selling “Caesar: The ...