Last summer, the ornate ruins of Nero’s Theater were discovered during excavations of a Renaissance building in Rome, Italy. The imperial structure has been mentioned in several ancient Roman ...

His rule ended as violently as it had begun. When he became emperor, Nero was a young man who enjoyed the theater, music and horse racing. His dominating mother, Agrippina, had already murdered ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis ... but he was not the last – Claudius sidelined his own son in favor of Nero, while Nerva "adopted" Trajan to ensure a smooth ...

The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ordered a subject to drive a knife through ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero. Each one honoured her as the most important woman in their reign, and she was able to leverage this into ...