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

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 ...

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

The Roman historian Suetonius called Cunobelinus — whose name literally ... Related: More than 1,300 coins buried during Roman emperor Nero's reign found in England Dutch archaeologists who studied ...

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 ...

Gambling, one of the most common vices in the world, has a long history that dates all the way back to Ancient Greece.

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 ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort.

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 ...