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Julio-Claudian dynasty
- TiberiusTiberius Julius Caesar Augustus was born on the 16th of November 42 BC, and by the time he died on the 16th of March AD 37, he had ruled the Roman Empire for…
- AugustusOn the 8th of May 44 BC, a teenager named Gaius Octavius accepted a dead man's will and, with it, the most dangerous inheritance in the Roman world.
- ClaudiusClaudius was born on the 1st of August 10 BC in Lugdunum, modern Lyon, making him the first Roman emperor born outside Italy.
- Rise of AugustusIn 44 BC, Octavian was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria when Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March.
- AeneidThe Aeneid opens with four Latin words: "Arma virumque cano" -- "Of arms and the man I sing." Virgil wrote those words between 29 and 19 BC, composing a poem…
- Julio-Claudian dynastyThe Julio-Claudian dynasty supplied the first five emperors of Rome, and not one of them was the blood son of the man he replaced.
- CaligulaCaligula, the third Roman emperor, came to power in AD 37 at age 24, welcomed by a city delirious with relief. Tiberius, his grim predecessor, had spent his…
- Reign of AugustusIn 31 BC, the naval forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra met their end at the Battle of Actium off the northwestern coast of Roman Greece.
- GermanicusGermanicus Julius Caesar died on the 10th of October AD 19 in Antioch, at the age of thirty-three. He left behind a Roman world in mourning so genuine that…
- Nero Claudius DrususNero Claudius Drusus entered the world between mid-March and mid-April 38 BC, three months after his mother Livia married Augustus on the 17th of January.
- Lusus TroiaeLusus Troiae, the Troy Game, was a spectacle of horsemanship performed by the sons of Rome's nobility. Picture three troops of twelve riders each, weaving…
- Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa was born around 63 BC into a plebeian family of no great distinction in Roman public life, and yet he would become the man without…