The power and influence Agrippina had reached were unprecedented for a woman in ancient Rome. By Giacomo...
Nero
Facts or fiction? Post-truth in the Roman historians. Introduction This essay examines the way in which ancient...
Though a coward, Nero thought a voluntary death better than the indignities which he knew awaited him....
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...
He is traditionally viewed as the second of the so-called “Mad Emperors,” the first being Caligula. Introduction...
The plot reflected the growing discontent among the ruling class of the Roman state with Nero’s increasingly...
A philosopher, writer, orator and statesman, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) was Rome’s leading intellectual during...