Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early promise gave way to wild extravagance and murder. His rule ended as violently as it ...

Canceled from memory—the fate of the palace as well as the ... Tacitus, who lived during the time of Nero, wrote that the emperor ordered the homeless to be sheltered, offered cash incentives ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

But now under the Emperor Nero, Paul is more certain of his fate. He has completed his last missionary journey and is close to execution. Timothy is probably still in Ephesus (4:12), but Paul ...

In Rome, archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace, have made a striking discovery: an uncommonly large Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ...

Living under absolute rule of an emperor, stoics were forced to walk a fine line between integrity and hypocrisy. Back in Rome, the murder of Claudius propelled Seneca's student, Nero, to the top job.

He argues that not only was the empire well governed during Nero’s nearly 14 year reign (AD 54-68), but that the emperor was by no means as maniacal as his reputation would have it. Drinkwater’s case ...

They are now on their way to battle Roman emperor Nero – only there’s a two-headed snake a few metres away from them. In Riordan’s latest offering, Lester attempts to fulfil his destiny by ...