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Roman rulers

Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
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The Praetorian Guard: the emperors’ fatal servants

Portrait head of Roman Emperor Nero circa AD 59-64. (Photo by Alamy)
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Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?

Marble bust of Nero
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Emperor Nero: the tyrant of Rome

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Cheese, angry gods and shoddy surgeons: the unlikely deaths of Roman emperors

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
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The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

Once he gained control of the entire Roman Empire, Constantine set about an ambitious programme of reform. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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Constantine the Great: the emperor who created Europe

Marble bust of Emperor Caligula. (DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)
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The 8 bloodiest Roman emperors in history

Emperor Nero and the fire in Rome
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Q&A Did Emperor Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?

Bust of young Caligula. Did he really make his horse a lawmaker of Rome? (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
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Q&A Did Caligula really make his horse a senator?

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Early 20th century image showing a tribune in the Roman Republic. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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Elections in the late Roman Republic: how did they work?

Front and profile views of the bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar (c50 BC) on display in the British Museum. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The Library Nick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC)

A 1985 production of 'Julius Caesar'. For all their despotism, Romans thanked their first three emperors for delivering them from the curse of civil war. (Photo by Jean-Jacques BERNIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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The glorious Caesars

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Life of the Week: Romulus Augustus

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Q&A Did Roman Britain have its own emperor?

Bust of Emperor Alexander Severus
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The Library Ancient Rome in crisis

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