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Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus ruled Rome for three years and ten months, from March 37 CE to January 41 CE. He was 24 when he took power and 28 when officers of his own Praetorian Guard cut him down in a corridor on the Palatine during the games. Rome has been arguing about what …
I, Claudius was broadcast by the BBC in 1976, produced on a budget that would not cover the catering costs of a modern prestige television production, …
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ruled the Roman Empire for fourteen years, from 54 to 68 AD, and the historical record that survives was …
Robert Graves published I, Claudius in 1934, followed immediately by its sequel Claudius the God, and the two novels together constitute the most …
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote the Lives of the Twelve Caesars — biographies of Julius Caesar through Domitian — probably in the early second …
Tacitus is the most important historian the Roman world produced and one of the most important historians in any tradition. He is also, unmistakably, …
The Roman Empire never solved its succession problem. This was not an oversight or a failure of political imagination — it was a structural …
