Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Sitting in Tom Holland’s study, I am puzzled. Looking around, I can see a suit of chain mail (a present from his brother and fellow popular historian James Holland), a mounted psittacosaurus fossil ...