On 24th January in 41 AD, Caligula was assassinated. The city was in chaos as the soldiers rampaged around trying to eliminate the remaining members of the imperial family. Caligula’s tyrannical reign had left them wanting a change in the […]
The story of the founding of Rome begins with Aeneas, a Trojan hero who after the end of the Trojan War, managed to escape with a few followers. On reaching Laurentum, an ancient city between Ostia and Lavinium, Aeneas and […]
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 […]
Ancient Roman attitudes towards sex were nothing if not direct. For example, it is from the Roman term for the sheath of one’s sword that we have our word “vagina!” Macho and militaristic, elite Roman culture revolved as much around […]
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 […]
This isn’t the kind of article a Rome-based tour company would ususally publish. But these aren’t exactly usual times! The world is looking on at our newfound way of life in Italy. And rather than keep publishing content about our […]
