You think 21st century culture is celebrity-obsessed? Try Mediterranean society at the dawn of the first millennium, when politics were entirely personal, and rulers’ romantic entanglements could be ...

Historians widely consider the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE to be the decisive event that led to Octavian defeating Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The couple committed suicide—Antony by stabbing himself in ...

Cleopatra VII Philopator was an astute ruler who used her charms to win over the most powerful men in the ancient world as ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Julius Caesar news every morning. A long time ago, in a republic far away, a civil war broke out igniting a fake news crisis. It started ...

In 30 B.C., Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII died by suicide after they were defeated by Octavian's forces in a civil war. But what if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian, the man who became ...

While everyone loves the dragons and giants, part of the appeal of Game of Thrones is the scheming and courtly machinations that occur off of the battlefield. Kings ascend and descend quickly, ...