Lifting the lid on the gruesome, depraved and salacious lives of Rome's first emperors. Condemnation will never be lacking for the dreadful deeds committed by the house of Caesar… ...

Tacitus made explicit parallels between Tiberius and Domitian ... along with rumors and gossip. Suetonius grew up in the equestrian class and was initially supported by his friend, Pliny the ...

Never the preferred heir, Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD / reigned 14 – 37 AD) soon showed why Augustus had wanted someone else. His political inability, poor judgment and jealousy led Rome into a ...

The other was the emperor’s grandson, Tiberius Gemellus. Suetonius claims that Tiberius recognized in Caligula those traits ...

In episode one of the series, we meet Livia, wife of Rome’s first emperor Augustus and mother of its second, Tiberius ... me to publish a translation of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars ...