Nobody expected Claudius to become emperor. Although he was the only surviving heir of Augustus and was the brother of the war hero, Germanicus ... had succeeded where Caesar had failed.

Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. As the frail, syphilis-ridden, and half-mad Emperor Tiberius nears the end of his reign, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, arrives at the depraved ruler's ...

As was the Roman custom, Augustus ... The baby Tiberius was not related to Julius Caesar nor his grandnephew and adopted son ...

Aging Emperor Claudius is writing the history of his family. He starts his recollections before he was born with the court of his grandfather Caesar Augustus. He then chronicles the goings-on in ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much ... institutions and expanding the frontiers more than anyone since Augustus. Author of the notable Caesar's Legacy: Civil War ...