Notorious for being a cruel megalomaniac tyrant who persecuted early Christians, had his stepbrother, two of his wives and even his own mother murdered, Rome's fifth emperor, Nero, has never been held ...

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Roman emperor Nero is depicted in history as a bloody tyrant who slept with his mother, killed two of his wives and 'fiddled' while Rome burnt. He also said to have practised singing and recited ...

The dictators at the end of the Roman Republic. Claudius, Caligula, Nero and more. How they ruled. An 1876 artistic representation of Nero's Rome by artist Henryk Siemiradzki. (WikiCommons) For ...

READERS of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius will remember that that book ended with the assassination of Caligula and the election by the army of Claudius as emperor. Claudius the God is not so much a ...

The Roman bust of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus that made headlines last year for being a $35 Goodwill find with a regal past, will be returned to Germany after it concludes its display run at the ...

1. In popular myth, Nero is best known for “fiddling while Rome burnt” but that is impossible. The whole class of fiddle or violin-like instruments did not exist until the 11th century. 2. Nero was ...