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...history of Rome’s first emperor Augustus, and some of the ways in which he consolidated his power analyse images and source texts, and compare them to one another...The many guises of the emperor Augustus: 1 Rome: republic to empire - Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, was a king in all but name. This may seem unsurprising; after all, one of the things people often...

...History of India”, vol. 1 (1922), we find the following statement: There is now a general agreement among scholars that Buddha died within a few years of 480 B.C. Statements like this are found in many books of world history, Indian history and history of religions. If this claim were correct, then it would be the earliest accurate date known in Indian history. The...

...family and eventually inherited this estate. The biographical record suggests that Austen spent a total of some ten weeks in this house on a number of visits, during which she made use of the library. This image is based on a contemporary engraving, and the horse-drawn carriage clearly engaged in a pleasure outing that trots briskly through a Capability Brown landscape...