imagine someone like Nero or Caligula. These are almost semi-crazed, semi-possessed rulers who find themselves at the helm of a state with enormous influence and lack any checks and balances ...

However, like Caligula before him, Nero had a dark side. His impulses began as simple extravagance. Before long, however, stories were circulating that he seduced married women and young boys ...

Domitian was a bad one - an emperor in the mold of Nero or Caligula. He terrorized leading Roman figures and executed or banished even his mildest critics. Although he had bought the army's ...

She was the sister of the emperor Caligula, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero. Each one honoured her as the most important woman in their reign, and she was able to leverage this into ...