Despite these dangers, Claudius worked hard at his job, starting work just after midnight every day. It began to pay off: he made major improvements to Rome’s judicial system, passed laws ...

As was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...

Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (38–9 BC), commonly known in English as Drusus the Elder, was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a patrician ...

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One particularly good example of ‘damnatio memoriae’ involves Crispus, the first son of the Roman emperor Constantine the ...

Half-length portrait, directed to right, head facing towards the left, ruins of colonnade in background, surrounded by an etched frame with swept centres and corners ...

The Roman writer Claudius Aelian (2nd–3rd century CE) tells us a curious story about a boy and a pet snake: The boy was lucky ...

Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 14th, has long been associated with love, romance, and the act of expressing a ...

Five years on from starting work at San Casciano, an Etruscan and Roman thermal baths, bronze and gold treasure continue to ...

the Roman frontier on the river Rhine. Much of the work has been lost, but in the surviving books, he describes the reigns of Tiberius and Claudius, painting a vivid picture of these important ...