Nine of the worst Roman emperors, known for madness, violence, corruption, and misrule, ultimately pushed the Roman Empire ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

The long line of ancient Roman emperors is marked by a strange pattern: Almost every exceptionally brilliant emperor was succeeded by an exceptionally mad one. The benevolent emperor Claudius, who ...

24/7 Tempo has assembled a list of the 25 Roman emperors with the longest reigns by consulting the Britannica ’s timeline and individual articles on every emperor in the unified or western Roman ...

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar lay dead from 23 knife wounds inflicted by his assassins. The next day, the question on every Roman citizen’s mind was: Who will rule Rome now? Getting to the ...

24/7 Tempo has assembled a list of the 25 Roman emperors with the longest reigns by consulting the Britannica ’s timeline and individual articles on every emperor in the unified or western Roman ...