Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Nikopolis, Greece, uncovered the building of the Sebasteion (“temple of the emperors”) in ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Trump’s open adoption of the imperial manner (issuing peremptory edicts, renaming geographical features, demanding the ...

BC: The traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the ...

It was built by the Roman emperor Tiberius, who commissioned 12 villas on Capri in the hopes of creating a palace of peace and relaxation away from the chaos of Rome. Villa Jovis is the most ...