Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor ...

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 — which translates to "Roman Peace." But despite the name of this era, the ...

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.

312 B.C. The censor Appius Claudius Caecus builds Rome’s first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia, which runs almost entirely underground. 144 B.C. Work begins on Rome’s longest aqueduct, the 56-mile ...

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.

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 the 1st Century AD, it was a place where Rome's emperor entertained guests in a majestic dining room, as sculptures paid homage to figures from ancient myth. Now, the Nymphaeum of Emperor ...

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 ...

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii, 357. Illus., maps, tables, stemma, notes, biblio., index. $32.00 paper. ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a ...