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Roman noble woman Livia Drusilla fled with her first husband Tiberius Nero from Octavian, only later to marry him and become Empress of Rome and a goddess.

In Chapter 1 of this series, I started with the question of whether Jesus of Nazareth existed, proceeded from the assumption that the correct answer is 'no', and introduced the hypothesis that Gaius Julius Caesar was the model used to build the...

In Chapter 1, I broached the question of whether Jesus of Nazareth actually existed, and introduced Francesco Carotta's very weird hypothesis that the historical model underlying the Lamb of God was one Gaius Julius Caesar. I finished with a...

From the blog of Brenda Lee Bohen at The Times of Israel

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   After the denarius, the sestertius is the second most commonly recognized coin of the Roman Empire (27 BCE - 476