Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of the Flavian Dynasty. His younger brother and successor, Domitian, implied ...

While a crowd of friends in Roman tunics held torches, burned incense and sang hymns, Fersen, dressed as Caesar ... Capri’s fate was Augustus’ successor, the emperor Tiberius.

A relative of Julius Caesar, Augustus’s mother-in-law, and a love rival to Cleopatra, she was, according to Plutarch, “a woman who took no thought for spinning or housekeeping”, and instead ...