Nobody expected Claudius to become emperor. Although he was the only surviving ... Britain had resisted Roman rule for over a century, but was conquered by Claudius, who created client kingdoms ...

It might come as no surprise, then that among the books he’s recommended is I, Claudius by British writer Robert Graves - a ...

Agrippina the Younger was a very important woman in the reigns of three of the earliest Roman emperors. She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero.

Hidden in the cave’s ceiling was a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman coin from the reign of Emperor Claudius. Then, further investigation revealed 15 Roman inscriptions within the cave’s interior ...

Rome, 1st Century AD. Aging Emperor Claudius is writing the history of his family. He starts his recollections before he was born with the court of his grandfather Caesar Augustus. He then ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of the fourth emperor, as a look at how Claudius ... Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof.

Explores the history of the Roman ... Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. The first Empress of Rome, the ruthless Livia Drusilla, carves a corpse-strewn path to put her own son on the emperor's throne.