Here’s how the young Roman emperor earned his bad ... “ridiculous and absurd” accounts of the emperor, says Barrett, who compares Suetonius and his contemporary, Cassius Dio, to tabloid ...

When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

Hence, Suetonius delicately notes that ... But it also played a key role in the process by which some Roman emperors became gods. What happened on the imperial pyre was crucial to the emperor ...

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 ...

A third-century Roman ruler is being ... castrated and made to live in Emperor Nero’s palace as his “queen.” If ancient historians Tacitus and Suetonius are correct—and there are questions ...

The Roman historian Suetonius (who lived around A.D. 70 to ... largely kept the empire within its frontiers, future emperors did not — with some future military adventures also ending in disaster.

of the first Roman emperors. Unsurprisingly, then, Einhard treasured it. He knew what fortune had preserved for him: the very template of how to write about a Caesar. Suetonius’ collection ...

In fact, the title of the book by the Roman author Suetonius The Twelve Caesars sounds ... us accounts of bawxati u reati for the first six emperors, though the sixth story involves four of ...

The first emerged in Achaea (Greece) shortly after the emperor’s death ... was their agreement that it nearly led to war against the Roman Empire. It didn’t come to that, and Suetonius explains that ...

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of the Flavian Dynasty. His younger brother and successor, Domitian ...