Notorious for being a cruel megalomaniac tyrant who persecuted early Christians, had his stepbrother, two of his wives and even his own mother murdered, Rome's fifth emperor, Nero, has never been held ...
The dictators at the end of the Roman Republic. Claudius, Caligula, Nero and more. How they ruled. An 1876 artistic representation of Nero's Rome by artist Henryk Siemiradzki. (WikiCommons) For ...
READERS of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius will remember that that book ended with the assassination of Caligula and the election by the army of Claudius as emperor. Claudius the God is not so much a ...