Suetonius, and Tacitus had described it,” said one of the archaeologists, Alessio De Cristofaro. Nero was a Roman emperor who took the throne in A.D. 54 at the age of 16 and died in A.D. 68.

In it, Suetonius lays bare the saucy details ... time learning about all the naughty antics these twelve Roman statesmen, generals, and emperors got up to. As this trend showed, many people ...

In fact, a number of supernatural phenomena were even attributed to certain philosophers and emperors. Omens and Portents: Roman historians such as Suetonius and Tacitus frequently reported the ...

Agrippina the Younger was a very important woman in the reigns of three of the earliest Roman emperors ... according to Nero’s biographer Suetonius, he tried to rig her bedroom ceiling to ...

as described by our major sources - the Roman authors Tacitus and Suetonius. In episode one of the series, we meet Livia, wife of Rome’s first emperor Augustus and mother of its second ...

His judgments would help shape Roman history for centuries ... of Rome from the time of Julius Caesar to the Emperor Domitian. In this book, Suetonius organized his biographies not by person ...

Suetonius, a historian who wrote during the ... during the inaugural games at the dedication of the Colosseum by the Roman emperor Titus in 80AD. The skeleton, a male aged between 26 and 35 ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of the fourth emperor ... Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof. Osgood (Classics, Georgetown), views the ...

TOM JOINS US FOR AN AFTERNOON EVENT FOR HIS MASTERFUL NEW TRANSLATION OF SUETONIUS' RENOWNED BIOGRAPHY OF THE TWELVE CAESARS, BRINGING TO LIFE A PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST ROMAN EMPERORS IN STUNNING ...