Gladiators in Roman York were pitted against lions, archaeologists have proved. During the Roman Empire, contemporary authors ...

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, can last a little longer than usual. And then there's 46 BCE, which lasted ...

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Or so Suetonius tells us in his scurrilous, meticulously detailed The Lives of the Caesars — written in the second century AD, when gossip was still swirling about the personal foibles ...

The reign that ensued - described in gory, glistening, salacious detail by the Roman historian Suetonius - would see Claudius dismantle his mask of imbecility to reveal himself clever and studious ...