Despite these dangers, Claudius worked hard at his job, starting work just after midnight every day. It began to pay off: he made major improvements to Rome’s judicial system, passed laws ...

Tom and Dominic conclude their journey through the colourful lives of Rome’s first Caesars, climaxing with the epic reign of Rome’s most unexpected emperor: Claudius.

and were primarily stamped with the portrait of the Emperor Claudius. Nearly 300 of the Roman coins are silver denarii, minted between 200 B.C. and 47 A.D. Some of those coins are stamped with ...

One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While Messalina, Claudius’ first wife, is said to have taken part in a ...

Striding across the landscape from Spain to Syria, these awe-inspiring structures not only carried life and livelihood but also proclaimed the greatness of Rome. The censor Appius Claudius Caecus ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography ... Author of the notable Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof. Osgood ...

Rome, 1st Century AD. 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 ...