Tiberius Claudius Nero was the second Roman Emperor, and as such the first 'outsider' to take over the system that Augustus had set up. It is commonly believed that he was not very skilled at ...

Nero’s early reign was golden. He banished Claudius’s secret trials, issued pardons, and when asked for his signature on a death warrant, moaned, “How I wish I had never learned to write!” ...

‘To the Spirits of the Dep­ar­ted, Tiberius Claudius Sec­undus,” reads an ... stories about the orgies of Nero (who reigned from AD 54 until his death in AD 68) or the bizarre sexual ...

He may have been the first to choose a successor and call it hereditary succession, but he was not the last – Claudius sidelined his own son in favor of Nero, while Nerva "adopted" Trajan to ...

The limestone sphinx with its "smiley face and two dimples" is thought to represent Roman Emperor Claudius. It is much smaller than the famous Sphinx in the Pyramids of Giza, which is 20m (66ft ...

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the ... But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic ...

In episode one of the series, we meet Livia, wife of Rome’s first emperor Augustus and mother of its second, Tiberius ... wife of Claudius and mother of Nero, and she outdoes even Livia in ...

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 ...

Most of the coins dated from the Republic era, pre-27BC, but there were also denarii minted during the reigns of emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero. Culture Club/Getty Images Boudicca ...

Sejanus is likely named after a Roman prefect and advisor to Emperor Tiberius. The Roman Sejanus ... cutting a lot of details ...

He may have been the first to choose a successor and call it hereditary succession, but he was not the last – Claudius sidelined his own son in favor of Nero, while Nerva "adopted" Trajan to ...