In a sign of the clashes that he would later face as king, Herod asserted his authority, and narrowly escaped being condemned to death. Having at first received the blessing of Rome, the ...

In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings. Romulus was supposedly the first king. The last king was Tarquin the Proud. He ruled until 509BC, when the people of Rome drove him out. Rome then ...

It was his brother who disobeyed the rule, so his twin killed him and set himself up as the first king of Rome. It is true that there was a monarchical past in ancient Rome, although the Republic ...

Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

After studying in Rome and Gaul, he travelled to Galloway ... Æthelberht became the first Anglo-Saxon king to turn his back on paganism and become Christian. Augustine was made a saint, sometimes ...

Promoting himself as the man who would return Rome’s past glory, Augustus claimed that only by restoring the traditional values that had first made Rome great could he hope to make it great again.

Roman worship was divided into the public and ... was always the emperor. The king of sacred things The rex sacrorum, meaning “king of sacred things” was a patrician appointed for life and ...