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 ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Saint Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 14, is widely recognised as a day of affection. On this day friends and ...

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Trump’s open adoption of the imperial manner (issuing peremptory edicts, renaming geographical features, demanding the ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?