As much as Julius Nepos refused to recognize his legitimacy and continued to hold the title in parallel until his death in ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any ... destroyed by Rome as a punishment for London supporting the rogue emperor Carausius.

This tremendous historical change was mainly due to Emperor Theodosius the Great, the last emperor of the Roman Empire before it eventually split permanently into the Eastern Roman Empire and Western ...

The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own. Aurelius ...

A 2000 year old novel, considered a “gossip-y” account of the Roman Emperors’ personal lives, has entered the book's bestseller charts. The Lives of the Caesars, originally written in Latin ...

Who knew ancient Roman emperors could be so relatable? In 'The Lives of the Caesars', written by the scholar Suetonius in the second century, we’re treated to juicy tales of political missteps ...

Adrian also clashed with the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, over authority in Rome and faced ongoing struggles with the Normans in southern Italy. He is also controversially linked to ...

When we last left Frederick II, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor after years of struggle. But this episode dives into Frederick’s fraught relationship with the papacy, his bold diplomacy with ...

Bust of Marcus Aurelius. Credit: Bob3321 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled over the classical world’s most powerful empire. In addition to his achievements as a ...

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