roman emperors

Last week, we focused on people who chose to undergo castration for religious reasons. But this probably wasn’t the most common experience most people had who were [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources include: The Book of Matthew 19:12 Suetonius: Life of Nero (C.J. Rolfe translation) Strabo: Geography (Horace Leonard Jones translation) [...Read More...]

Hadrian was the Roman emperor who commissioned Hadrian’s Wall–and he probably had a hand in designing it. But the Wall was only a very small part of Hadrian’s [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s a picture of the statue of Hadrian with Athena standing on the wolf of Rome! Here are some sources for further reading on Hadrian’s [...Read More...]

The living at Hadrian’s Wall wasn’t as austere as you might think for those stationed there–especially in the beginning. Merchants flocked from all over the [...Read More...]

With their brother Caligula dead, the two remaining Germanicus children–Julia Livilla and Agrippina–are called home from exile. The new emperor, their uncle [...Read More...]

With their parents and older brothers dead, the four remaining Germanicus children (Agrippina, Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla, and Caligula) face an uncertain future. Caligula [...Read More...]

**SWOON** we just cannot get enough of ancient-history romance. Also, here is Alaric, rising out of the water to wreak havoc on the countryside after Wallia sells his people [...Read More...]

In this episode, it’s Roman Emperors behaving badly–and Praetorian Prefects behaving even worse. Beginning with Caligula, Emperors were assaulted in their homes, [...Read More...]

So…yeah. Sometimes Genn and I will look at each other after an episode ends and go, “did all that actually happen?” This was definitely one of those. Our [...Read More...]