Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
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.
The author of Luke’s gospel was educated and literate: as much is obvious from today’s pericope, which begins with the first four verses of his gospel, possibly the most elegant Greek in the ...
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known for his tumultuous reign as Roman emperor from AD 54 to AD 68, built the "Golden House" whose archaeological treasures continue to astonish ...
According to legend, in the 4th century, Emperor Constantine (also known as Constantine the Great) converted to Christianity ...
He will reign on David’s throne and over ... interpreted as a sign of the deification of Julius Caesar following his murder, which his son Augustus capitalised on, and Virgil recorded in his ...
Although Tiberius began his reign as the second emperor of Rome as a competent ... Moreover, Tiberius cast aside some of the more pompous traditions of Augustus and Caesar before him — notably, he ...