Following the death of Caligula’s great-grandfather, Emperor Augustus, in 14 AD, his adopted son Tiberius became Rome’s emperor. Because Caligula’s father Germanicus, was a well-liked general and part ...

The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius, is one of his most shocking and salacious, condemning Tiberius to infamy. But was Tiberius really the perverted ...

Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

Feeding Emperor Augustus Caesar: Handmade Roman Cheese. Posted: February 12, 2025 | Last updated: February 12, 2025. Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power ...

Valeria Messalina was at most 18 in A.D. 38 when she married her only husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus. Claudius on the other hand was a 47-year-old, twice-divorced, father of two.

Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome. When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his ...

Emperor Augustus arranged for his heir, Tiberius, to formally adopt Germanicus at age 19, giving a tacit indication that Germanicus, not Tiberius’s son Drusus, should be the next emperor.

A denarius in the time of the emperor Tiberius would have the image of the emperor, in itself a serious offence to observant Jews, but also the inscription ‘Ti[berius] Caesar Divi Aug[usti] F[ilius] ...