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 ...

Tom and Dominic conclude their journey through the colourful lives of Rome’s first Caesars, climaxing with the epic reign of Rome’s most unexpected emperor: Claudius.

The unexpected elevation of Claudius appears to have denied the Senate and other conspirators the opportunity to reformulate ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Rome, 1st Century AD. Aging Emperor Claudius is writing the history of his family. He starts his recollections before he was born with the court of his grandfather Caesar Augustus. He then ...

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 ...

Author of the notable Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof. Osgood (Classics, Georgetown), views the received image from the histories of Suetonius and Tacitus ...

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 ...