Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

But we are looking for ways to resist. We are well acquainted with one of Jesus’ most political directives: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Mark ...

The Roman Republic was likewise in a dire state, in Cicero’s opinion, since Julius Caesar had recently been ... able to buy their freedom, like Gaius Iulius Mygdonius, whose epitaph recorded ...