Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

A new emperor, Pertinax, was set out to reform his notoriously ... Governors and senators plotted against him, and citizens protested. Roman consul Cassius Dio recorded the inevitable result ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

The coins feature portraits of eight emperors, but three coins portrayed an unexpected ruler: Eugenius, an illegitimate emperor of the Western Roman Empire who reigned for only two years (392 to 394).

The nickname 'Sir Pertinax MacSycophant' was a contemptuous reference to the Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax, who was murdered three months after his meteoric assent by his own bodyguard.

After his assassination, the Praetorian Guard—an elite unit of Roman soldiers with significant influence over imperial succession—installed Pertinax as emperor. Unfortunately, Pertinax lasted only 86 ...

Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537 A.D., its circular dome covers what was for a thousand years the largest indoor space in the world. It remains architecturally ...

One of these blocks depicts the emperor Pertinax (193 CE) making an offering to Tapshay ... the importance of such structures within temple theology in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Shrine 2, ...

Read on to see amazingly well-preserved Roman villas in Europe ... Some historians have identified him as Publius Helvius Pertinax, a senator, governor of Britain and future emperor (though he was ...

destroying the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and several other settlements. Marble statue of Emperor Augustus at the National Archaeological Museum in Rome, Italy. A team of archaeologists ...

If not for Nero, Caligula would easily be rated the Roman Empire's worst emperor, but his notorious reputation might deserve another look. Caligula was so hated by his own men that they ...