The Roman Republic lasted from 509 to 27BC and a series of unrest and civil wars in the 1st Century BC marked its transition ...

My previous column raised, and rebutted, arguments for the theory that Jesus was a myth created by early Christians and not a ...

It is an extraordinary story. She really must have been a beauty and Claudius never saw it coming. As with the death of Tiberius, we don’t know for certain Claudius was poisoned by Agrippina ...

Claudius, his name is stamped on the pipe. One of the most remarkable things about Caligula is that he lived to become emperor at all. The emperor before him, his adoptive grandfather Tiberius ...

Yet the image of Tiberius’ indulgences became a fixture of Capri’s reputation, repeated as gospel and perpetuated in Robert Graves’ historical novel I, Claudius and in the lurid 1979 film ...

It was not evident until quite late in his life that Tiberius would become the preeminent man in Rome. He was born Tiberius Claudius Nero on 16 November 42 BC. As a member of the Claudian clan, he ...

Tiberius is banished from Rome and Augustus sees the future as lying in his young grandsons Lucius and Gaius. Antonia has also borne a child by Drusus: Claudius.

In 1976, 42 years after the publication of Graves’s novel, the BBC’s adaptation of I, Claudius scored a brilliant ... more closely resembled Emperor Tiberius than Augustus.

The museum’s show fitted in with the revisionist treatment of other ancient bastards – Augustus was a great statesman, Tiberius a masterly administrator, Claudius an intellectual etc – and ...