Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...
The play is a poignant, one-act portrait of an unmoored and drifting ... having played the title character in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” at the Gamm Theatre, and Pa Joad in John Steinbeck ...
A few centuries later, Julius Caesar was the first Roman leader to have his portrait on a coin while he was still alive, one denarius minted just days before his murder in 44 B.C., the museum said.
In the 17th century, when the monetary system was in turmoil due to the Civil War, many tradesmen made their own money, known as tokens. In the Basingstoke area some 13 tokens of different designs ...
The rare mix of Roman and British money features portraits of emperors and kings who ruled from ... all struck between 200 B.C. and A.D. 47. One depicts Julius Caesar, and there is also a rare example ...