Nero and his mother appear to have had a falling out within about two years of his becoming emperor. Her face stopped appearing on Roman coins after A.D. 55, and she appears to have lost power in ...

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 ...

When Emperor Claudius died suddenly in A.D. 54, Nero succeeded him to the throne at only 16 years old, leapfrogging over other members of the Julio-Claudian ruling dynasty.

One theory, suggested by museum officials, is that it represents the savings of a wealthy local farmer who obtained his wealth by supplying grain and livestock to the Roman army. Emperor Nero's ...

The ancient ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s private theater were discovered in Rome, according to multiple reports, giving archaeologists access to a historical site that had eluded them for years ...

Nero depicted by artist Jan Stycka. Credit: M0tty on Wikimedia Commons However, impostors have always existed, and the trail leads us back to Antiquity, where the aforementioned episode of the ...

The Roman emperor Nero ranks among the most infamous rulers of the Roman Empire for ... When Caligula was murdered in A.D. 41 and succeeded by Emperor Claudius, Nero was reunited with ...

The emperor fled the city, bringing only a freedman and Sporus with him to a countryside hideout. There, Nero begged Sporus to pray and help him commit suicide, but his last empress declined.

Eventually Nero’s excesses became too much for his Praetorian Guard, and in C.E. 68 they gave their allegiance to his enemy, the Roman statesman Galba, who briefly became emperor after Nero’s ...