It was a tremendous embarrassment for the failing Roman Empire, and it worsened an already terrible crisis. Called “the ...

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

Tacitus made explicit parallels between Tiberius and Domitian ... Suetonius still form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.

His study is pivotal for understanding the propagation of Christianity within the Roman Empire following ... the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators ...

Good old Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) in his Early History of Rome, Vol. I, tells us that “the study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind” and ...

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome ... and Augustus was succeeded without question by his stepson, Tiberius. The same arguments currently being made by ...

The Annals are based on official records and accounts from the Roman Empire era. Image credits ... suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators ...