Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

The 12 Caesars whose lives constituted the theme of his collection were enshrined for medieval Europe as the very archetypes of emperors. And so they remain to this day. That Rome tends to live more ...

Seen as a welcome breath of fresh air when he took the throne, Caligula’s (12 ... trials, Rome welcomed its new emperor. The youngest son of the war hero, Germanicus, Gaius Caesar had ...

In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice. To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a ...