While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Instead, I refer to one of the most reviled, debauched and feckless leaders that history ever spat out: Nero Claudius Caesar ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a chunk of Egyptian blue ingot, an example of the opulence of the palace itself.

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero ...

From Robert Graves’s novel I, Claudius (1934) and its TV adaptation in the 1970s ... filched from the biography of Nero. Thanks largely to Suetonius, as Holland remarks, Rome lives more vividly than ...