The following year, his troops proclaimed him emperor and the army marched on Rome. Like Galba, Vitellius wasted no time in eliminating opponents.

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts.

As Those About to Die depicts, ancient Rome was often in turmoil, with few periods as chaotic as the Year of Four Emperors after Nero's reign.

Was Nero really a monster? Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a murderous psychopath to a depraved tyrant.

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A stone’s throw away from the Colosseum in Rome, the Archaeological Park of Celio contains a host of freshly excavated ancient artifacts.

A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial ...