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 ...

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

Striding across the landscape from Spain to Syria, these awe-inspiring structures not only carried life and livelihood but also proclaimed the greatness of Rome. The censor Appius Claudius Caecus ...

Agrippina the Younger was a very important woman in the reigns of three of the earliest Roman emperors. She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero.

One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While Messalina, Claudius’ first wife, is said to have taken part in a ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of ... Author of the notable Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof. Osgood (Classics, Georgetown), ...

They portray figures including Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine-making, the Roman goddess Venus and Antonia Minor, Claudius's mother. The Nymphaeum was part of the Roman town of Baiae ...

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ... destruction (though scholars doubt he really played a fiddle while Rome burned), he was also an emperor of creation, overseeing the construction ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography ... Author of the notable Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof. Osgood ...