Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a murderous psychopath to a depraved tyrant. Is it time to reexamine this ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor taste in ...

Rome’s hardball politics were off-limits to women, yet this great-granddaughter of Augustus won power for herself and her son, Nero, who would later have her murdered. Agrippina’s portraits often ...

Ahead of construction of a luxury hotel, archaeologists working at a site near the Vatican unearthed the ruins of a private theater where the notoriously cruel Roman emperor Nero once prepared for his ...

Rome, 1st Century AD. Aging Emperor Claudius is writing the history of his family. He starts his recollections before he was born with the court of his grandfather Caesar Augustus. He then chronicles ...

So soll Kaiser Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, schlicht genannt Nero, am 9. Juni des Jahres 68 n. Chr. gestorben sein. So zumindest berichtet es der Schriftsteller Sueton, der als Leiter der ...

War es Mord? Eine Quelle behauptet, Britannicus sei einem besonders schweren Anfall der Epilepsie zum Opfer gefallen und dadurch höchst bedauerlich verschieden. Eine andere Quelle scheint zu wissen, ...