Nero and his mother appear to have had a falling out within about two years of his becoming emperor. Her face stopped appearing on Roman coins after A.D. 55, and she appears to have lost power in ...

Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional ...

Kathie Lee Gifford's second book in her 'Ancient Evil, Living Hope' series is on the way! 'Nero and Paul' will spotlight the ...

Nero depicted by artist Jan Stycka. Credit: M0tty on Wikimedia Commons However, impostors have always existed, and the trail leads us back to Antiquity, where the aforementioned episode of the ...

It is almost 2,000 years overdue, but the world, it seems, owes an apology to the Roman emperor Nero. Far from being a sadistic killer who fiddled while Rome burned, ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ... Some emperors were famously bad — such as Caligula ...

But in fact, Roman emperors were heavily constrained by institutions, the economy and popular mood. ... Nero: from populist to pariah. Nero (54–68 CE), a colourful successor of Augustus, ...

The emperor fled the city, bringing only a freedman and Sporus with him to a countryside hideout. There, Nero begged Sporus to pray and help him commit suicide, but his last empress declined.

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ... Some emperors were famously bad — such as Caligula (ruled from A.D. 37 to 41) and Nero (ruled from A.D. 54 to 68) ...