Boudicca: I am Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. When my husband died, he left his kingdom both to me and the Roman emperor, Nero, to share. It was meant to keep the peace between us. Narrator ...

The history of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Livia Drusilla examines the reign of the empress's husband Augustus. It also covers the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.

Among his many projects, he sought to revive Nero’s plan to dig a canal in Corinth, making him the most prolific benefactor of construction projects in Roman Greece after the emperors themselves ...

The parallels between Aesop’s “The Frogs Who Desired a King” and our own political moment are hard to ignore. I hope I am ...

What’s more, Tiberius wasn’t nearly as charismatic as his predecessor, so he fell out of favor with both the Senate and the Roman people ... himself, a husband was required to denounce a wife who ...

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

Today's top videos I’ve visited Washington DC many times and have always been struck by how it looks like what the Roman Forum might ... showed up with her husband Bill as well as the outgoing ...

Just like the Roman ... the emperors in the Colosseum, he threw the Sharpies he used to sign the orders into the crowd. We’re not even a week into this presidency and yet it has been fascinating, ...

A great fire ravaged Rome in A.D. 64 and, according to an apocryphal story, Nero played a fiddle during it. In A.D. 68, the Praetorian guard, the forces in charge of protecting the emperor ...