A Pigment That Defined the Renaissance Was Just Discovered in the Ruins of Nero’s ‘Golden House’
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...
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Bust of Claudius in later life
Agrippina began her quest for power by persuading Claudius to bring back Seneca from exile so that he could become tutor to her own son, Nero, the boy she planned to make an emperor. Gradually ...
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Hoard of silver Denarii from Nero, Claudius era found in British treasure hoard
At the time, the Roman Empire, under Nero, was struggling to maintain control over England following the earlier invasion by Emperor Claudius. The majority of the coins are silver denarii minted ...
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Nero to zero: The rise and fall of a brutal Roman emperor
Nero only became emperor because his power-hungry mother, Agrippina the Younger, manoeuvred him into place to take the role. She wed her uncle, the emperor Claudius, then arranged for Nero to ...
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The most powerful Roman you've never heard of
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 ...
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Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...