Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second centuries, wrote in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars that Augustus ...

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

Next, Boudica’s army turned its attention to Londinium (modern-day London), then a thriving Roman settlement. Governor Suetonius Paulinus, the Roman official in charge of the province, decided ...

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in ...

as described by our major sources - the Roman authors Tacitus and Suetonius. In episode one of the series, we meet Livia, wife of Rome’s first emperor Augustus and mother of its second ...

According to the Roman historian Suetonius, Augustus boasted that he had found Rome a city of mudbrick and left it a city of marble: “Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset,” in ...

A biography written of Caesar by the Roman historian Suetonius in the year 121 AD (over 100 years after Caesar’s death) said, “Baldness was a disfigurement that troubled him greatly since he ...

3. The final battle. audio3. The final battle Suetonius address the Roman troops and Boudicca the Britons; then the two armies fight. Comic sketches exploring all aspects of the Roman invasion and ...

Recent projects have explored sources for understanding the Augustan age, including Suetonius’ Life of Augustus and buildings in the city of Rome. Phillips teaches a range of courses on Greek and ...