When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

Joan Smith describes how the powerful women of ancient Rome’s first imperial dynasty were smeared as adulterers, poisoners ...

Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a ...

Tiberius is banished from Rome and Augustus sees the future as lying in his young grandsons Lucius and Gaius. Antonia has also borne a child by Drusus: Claudius.

great-niece of Tiberius (granddaughter of Drusus), sister to Caligula, wife of Claudius, and mother to Nero. Like her male relatives, she enjoyed great influence. Honored with the title Augusta in ...

The book spans decades of Roman political history, chronicling the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula, before Claudius reluctantly comes to power. Presented as a first-person narrative ...

According to what experts have discovered over the years, it once housed the remains of Augustus himself, along with those of Tiberius, Claudius and other members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Augustus’ successor, Tiberius, was not well-liked among the state’s elites ... The next leader of the Pax Romana was Claudius, Caligula’s uncle. Under Claudius’ reign, the Roman Empire expanded into ...

In 1976, 42 years after the publication of Graves’s novel, the BBC’s adaptation of I, Claudius scored a brilliant ... more closely resembled Emperor Tiberius than Augustus.

Amid the chaos, Tiberius’ father, Tiberius Claudius Nero, had pledged his support to Antony. With Antony defeated, however, Tiberius’ family became fugitives. By the time Tiberius was three, his ...

The future emperor protected Herodes, who was acquitted. Herodes Atticus’ father, named Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, was of Athenian origin (he claimed descent from Miltiades and Cimon) and came ...