Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster….

Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius.

Other secular witnesses to the historical Jesus include Suetonius in his biography of Claudius, Phlegan recording the eclipse of the sun during Jesus' death and even Celsus, a pagan philosopher.

A 2000 year old novel, considered a “gossip-y” account of the Roman Emperors’ personal lives, has entered the book's bestseller charts. The Lives of the Caesars, originally written in Latin ...

Monarchy accustoms us to think of hereditary succession. So it is natural for Tom Holland to give his history of the first emperors of Rome the title Dynasty. The empire was certainly a family ...