As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin ...

Francesco Lastrucci The legendary domain of Homer's sirens, Capri has seduced many a traveler, including the Roman emperor Tiberius. Musei Capitolini, Rome / Art Resource, NY "Capi has always ...

Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY Antimo Mangione ... Following in the (rumored) tradition of the emperors Caligula, Hadrian and Lucius Verus—and to the contempt of the patrician elite—Commodus ...

the most debauched Roman Emperor. From stealing brides from their wedding days to an unhealthy obsession with his sister, who was Caligula and was he a f*ckboy? Kate is joined by historian ...

Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster…. The Roman emperor Caligula endures as one of the most notorious figures in not only Roman history, but the history of the ...

A president who bullies Congress kowtows to the bond market.

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine. After receiving only a glancing mention in the first ...

They would be used in the pivotal scene in which Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) communicates with the emperor (as a holographic projection). Revill’s voice would be replaced on the 2004 DVD ...