Inscription with the name of Tiberius Claudius Narcissus, c. 50 BC, from the Passage of the Theoroi in Thasos. He reportedly had great influence over the emperor and amassed a great deal of money. He ...

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He was born and raised in Pompeiopolis, a city in the Roman province of Galatia. His paternal grandfather, Gaius Claudius Severus, was a consul and the first Roman governor of Arabia Petraea in the ...

One of the coins in the hoard was a gold aureus of Claudius, the very emperor who led the invasion of Britain. That connection made the find even more special. It's heavy and a beautiful coin, and has ...

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Bestselling author, stand-up comedian, and broadcaster Natalie Haynes is the closest thing the world of classical academia ...

1. Misconception: Caligula’s horse held public office. In the 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius, Emperor Caligula greets his horse, Incitatus, at a wedding reception. “He’s never been to a wedding ...

One thing that certainly did not happen was a warrior mounted on a rhinoceros (even a non-computer-generated one) charging at ...

A pair of metal-detector-discovered coin hoards have both sold for high figures at auction. The Helmingham Hoard made ...

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