Hardly surprising, then, that Suetonius wrote how this sort of behavior endeared him to the people. Conquering the Brits Claudius had some real successes. Britain had resisted Roman rule for over ...

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in ...