Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second centuries, wrote in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars that Augustus ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Emperor Valens, eager to secure a swift victory in the Battle of Adrianople, underestimated the strength and tactics of the ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...

Critics of Trump's plan to displace Gaza's population have called him 'mad.' Albert Camus, author of 'Caligula' knew better.

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

After the death of the emperor Tiberius in 37 CE, the Roman state was jubilant. The old man was considered depraved, distant, ...

By day, she was the emperor’s wife, the most admired woman in Rome, who lived in a palace and wanted for nothing. By night, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 2000-year-old gold and silver coins in Netherlands, marking the largest Roman-era discovery in ...

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