Nobody expected Claudius to become emperor. Although he was the only surviving ... Britain had resisted Roman rule for over a century, but was conquered by Claudius, who created client kingdoms ...

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana — which translates to "Roman Peace." But despite the name of this era, the ...

The poet Sextus Propertius branded it 'degenerate' and 'love's disgrace'. Claudius, the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy, started the conquest of Britain. He is believed to have been ...

Tom and Dominic conclude their journey through the colourful lives of Rome’s first Caesars, climaxing with the epic reign of Rome’s most unexpected emperor: Claudius.

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero ...

Agrippina the Younger was a very important woman in the reigns of three of the earliest Roman emperors. She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero.

In AD 43, the Roman Emperor Claudius personally led his troops into the city, completing the full conquest of Britain. A massive temple dedicated to Claudius was built soon after, but it didn’t ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much a biography of the fourth emperor, as a look at how Claudius ... Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006), Prof.

Explores the history of the Roman ... Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. The first Empress of Rome, the ruthless Livia Drusilla, carves a corpse-strewn path to put her own son on the emperor's throne.