He understood the media. And so Augustus was great, they say. Not to suggest that Nero was himself a great emperor—but that he was better than they said he was, and no worse than those who came ...

There was only one solution. After 14 years as emperor, the Senate declared Nero as a public enemy. He fled and committed suicide. Augustus' dynasty was over and Rome descended again into civil war.

Although he was the only surviving heir of Augustus and was the brother of the ... exile so that he could become tutor to her own son, Nero, the boy she planned to make an emperor.

The contrast between the Domus Aurea (the palace of Emperor Nero) and the comparatively humble House of Augustus (the palace of Emperor Augustus). Related: Beating Heart Of Rome: This Is What The ...

Nero cannot bear his mother’s domineering and eventually has her killed. Other women, attract attention for their flagrant sexual excesses. One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only ...

Tiberius Claudius Nero was the second Roman Emperor, and as such the first 'outsider' to take over the system that Augustus had set up. It is commonly believed that he was not very skilled at ...

This prehistoric origin site became the must-have address of leading Republican politicians before Emperor Augustus took charge, back in 27 BCE, and started a streak of Imperial palace-building.

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her ...

Baiae’s hedonism was as notorious as that of Las Vegas today. Seven emperors, including Augustus and Nero, had villas there, as did Julius Caesar and his rival Marc Antoine. But Baiae wasn’t ...

Most of the coins dated from the Republic era, pre-27BC, but there were also denarii minted during the reigns of emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero. Culture Club/Getty Images Boudicca ...

Seized in 2022 and neglected for two full years, Alfa Nero has left the marina in Antigua and is heading in for a refit. Its ...