Roman rulers

Mary Beard

“The Roman empire cannot have been governed by a series of psychopaths. It would not have survived” Mary Beard on Roman Emperors

Trajan statue

Tom Holland on Trajan "He is vastly overrated"

A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword

An EID MAR coin showing two daggers and a helmet

The coin that celebrates Caesar’s murder

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

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A depiction of Queen Cleopatra, c50 BC

Who was Cleopatra? Her life, her love affairs and her children, plus 6 little-known facts

Engraving depicting the assassination of Julius Caesar

Q&A Why do we need to beware the Ides of March?

Bust of Heliogabalus

From sex scandals to religious controversy: Rome’s forgotten emperor Heliogabalus

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Silbannacus: the Roman emperor that time forgot