Julius has increased a bit from its 1994 low point. That’s probably because the similar Julian has boomed. Perhaps in another ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd's ...

"Veni, vidi, vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar — but why did the ...

In reality, Caesar’s last words to Brutus were “You too, my child?” according to Suetonius, but never mind that. In the end, DOGE turned out to just be another government program that failed to live ...

Originally written in 121 CE during Emperor Hadrian's time (the one who built Hadrian's Wall, where you can still hike today ...

Nero was the Matricide, Commodus the Gladiator. One of our richest sources for unflattering nicknames in Rome is Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars, a set of biographies of twelve emperors, starting with ...

The Unexpected. Five and a half months later, Caesar is dead. Wilder ends his novel with Suetonius’ description of the assassination, practically the only nonfictional passage in the entire book.

Suetonius, the Roman author of The Twelve Caesars, tells us Julius Caesar said this as Caesar and his army forded the river Rubicon in the north of Italy, defying orders from the Roman Senate.

Suetonius’s collection featured 12 lives in all. The first was that of Julius Caesar, the dictator whose name had become synonymous with imperial rule; the last, that of Domitian, an emperor who had ...

The depiction of the Caesars’ personal idiosyncrasies, to say nothing of their jaw-dropping monstrosities, displays Suetonius’s insatiable appetite for entertaining and characterful stories. Julius ...