Since the early days of mankind, humans have looked to the stars for answers to their
biggest questions, expecting the fulfillment of the most basic need to comprehend the …

The princeps Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors,
looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic …

With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in
ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and …

In the last few years, the open-source desktop planetarium program Stellarium has become
ever more popular for research and dissemination of results in Cultural Astronomy. In this …

This paper presents our ongoing work in the Virtual Interiors project, which aims to develop
3D reconstructions as geospatial interfaces to structure and explore historical data of …

This paper explores different ways of modelling and simulating complex spatial and
temporal events, such as battles, for which it has been practically impossible to (re) construct …

In the last decade, there was increasing interest in the archaeoastronomy of the Roman
epoch and many researches were carried out on this topic. Several studies have been …

In an age of religious conflict when men claiming divine assistance competed for the Roman
throne, Euhemerism became a powerful rhetorical tool. Part of L. Caelius Firmianus …

The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014 commemorated not only the end of
his life but also the beginning of a two-thousand-year reception history. This volume …

The winter solstice shaped Rome and its landscape from the ancestral cult of Saturnus as
primordial god of the Roman territory before the city's founding to its use by Augustus as one …