What – to dip briefly into the world of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian – did the Romans ever do for us? Apart, of course, from ...

Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early promise gave way to wild extravagance and murder. His rule ended as violently as it had begun.

The Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) marked the first brutal civil war of the Roman Empire, plunging the empire into chaos ...

Caligula and Nero were two of the more problematic emperors of Rome, after the fall of the Republic, and rise of the rule by emperors. Caligula was seen as a good leader for the first few years of his ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump’s first ...

ROME — Did Roman emperor Nero get a bad rap? “Divo Nerone,” a rock opera with international ambitions being staged in the real Roman Forum by Oscar-winning production designer Dante Ferretti and other ...

A marble statue of Nero on loan from the Louvre in Paris is seen at the Landesmuseum in Germany in 2016. Harald Tittel/Picture Alliance via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s first term saw a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump’s first term saw a record-high rate of turnover among his Cabinet members and chief advisers. Trump’s second term has, to date, seen far fewer Cabinet ...