“When people first see my images they often think they’re paintings,” claims Australian photographer Alexia ... that appears in an image of the Roman Empress Julia Agrippina was photographed ...

What do we think of Roman “empresses”? Is there a model for power among the women of the Roman hierarchy? Many of us thrilled to the wicked Livia (wife of the emperor Augustus) in the BBC/HBO ...

Archaeologists digging in Turkey have found the colossal marble head of a Roman empress. It was discovered in a rubble-filled building where parts of a huge statue of the emperor Hadrian were ...

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger, one of the most notorious and influential of the Roman empresses in the 1st century AD. Show more Agrippina the Younger was ...