Curated category
People executed by the Roman Empire
- JesusA Galilean teacher whose movement remade the world. Listen to the story of Jesus told as history and lore, honest about the evidence.
- Tiberius GemellusTiberius Gemellus was born on the 10th of October AD 19, the same day his uncle Germanicus died far away in Syria. He was a grandson of the emperor Tiberius…
- LiciniusValerius Licinianus Licinius emerged from a Dacian peasant family in Moesia Superior around the year 265. His early life remained obscure until he joined his…
- Saint PeterSaint Peter began life as Shimon bar Yonah, a fisherman from Bethsaida. He died, according to tradition, crucified upside down on Vatican Hill under the…
- Paul the ApostlePaul the Apostle was born Saul of Tarsus around 5 AD, into a devout Jewish family in one of the busiest port cities on the Mediterranean coast.
- Seneca the YoungerSeneca the Younger spent his final hours in a warm bath, dictating last words to a scribe while friends gathered around him in his home.
- StilichoStilicho was the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire, a half-Vandal general who rose from the ranks to hold an empire together with his bare hands.
- VitelliusVitellius ruled Rome for just eight months in AD 69, and his last words were spoken to soldiers who were about to kill him.
- Didius JulianusMarcus Didius Julianus became Roman emperor on the 28th of March 193, not through conquest or succession, but by shouting his bids over a wall.
- Quintus Aemilius LaetusQuintus Aemilius Laetus stood at the center of one of the most chaotic years in Roman history. On the last night of 192 CE, he helped orchestrate the killing…
- MacrinusMacrinus, born around 165 in Caesarea - the city now called Cherchell in modern Algeria - became Roman emperor in April 217 without ever having set foot in…
- SejanusSejanus died on the 18th of October, AD 31, strangled by order of the same emperor he had served for seventeen years. His body was thrown down the Gemonian…
- Apollodorus of DamascusApollodorus of Damascus built a bridge across the Danube wide enough to carry an army. He raised a column in Rome that had never been attempted before.