The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

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The title role in Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy Hamlet is on the bucket list for many actors wishing to challenge their ...

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero ...

When Claudius found out, he ordered Valentine be ... Lupercalia is mentioned in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” when Mark Antony is told by Caesar to whip his wife, in the hope that she ...

INTERVIEW: Renowned actor - and Mad Men star - Jared Harris on his return to Stratford to play Claudius in Hamlet ...

The first was that of Julius Caesar, the dictator whose name had ... the BBC’s adaptation of I, Claudius scored a brilliant success by exploiting to the full everything that was most sensational ...

Tiberius Caesar had the unenviable task of succeeding his stepfather Augustus. He would always be a pale shadow of the ...

Time for the Romans was divided differently, with the Kalends, the Ides at the start and middle of each month, respectively, and the Nones sitting between them. With the intention of maintaining and ...

In Rome during the 1st century B.C., Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew Octavian provoked and won a chaotic, decade-long power struggle in the republic, emerging victorious and intimidating the shaken ...