Tiberius Caesar has gone down in history as one of the most notorious of Rome’s early emperors. The stories that surround him are both scandalous and salacious, as shocking to our modern sensibilities as they were to his contemporaries. But […]
Few of Rome’s early emperors have such an undeservedly damning reputation as Domitian (81 – 96 AD). He comes down to us as the black sheep of the Flavian dynasty. A cruel, ruthless autocrat. A powerful, paranoid psychopath who purged […]
If the mad, bad, and dangerous-t0-know emperor Nero is famous for one thing it’s fiddling while Rome burned. The image of him performing with glee as the imperial capital burned around him has entered our lexicon. Serving as a metaphor […]
The emperor Caligula (37-41 CE) has gone down as one of Rome’s worst. During his short reign, the mad, bad, and dangerous-to-know emperor caused mayhem among the Roman elite. He demanded senators worship him as a god, brazenly took their […]
Few Roman emperesses sufer the same scandalous reputation as Messalina, who once allegedly competed with Rome’s foremost prostitute in a sex marathon (and won!). But what was the most audacious act of her scandalous life? Find out here!
