The Roman Republic ended when the Roman people decided to vote for Caesar. Of course, he carefully claimed he was not Caesar, but simple Octavian, man of the people, who sought nothing but to benefit ...

Caligula. Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek. Credit: Sergey Sosnovskiy CC BY-SA 2.0 Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd ...

History and classics buffs are in luck as the third Roman Empire documentary series is about to drop on Netflix. While the first two runs centred on emperors Commodus and Julius Caesar respectively, ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a Roman emperor known as Caligula briefly reigned over much of Europe, the Near East and northern Africa. Ancient historians describe him as a megalomaniac, a pervert and ...

Did he really make his horse a consul? Or sleep with his sisters? In a new BBC documentary Prof Mary Beard reappraises one of Rome's most notorious tyrants Caligula is a nickname for Gaius Julius ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers determined that the engraving referred to Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula. . | Credit: ...

During the four years that Caligula occupied the Roman throne, his favorite hideaway was an imperial pleasure garden called the Horti Lamiani. The vast residential compound spread out on the Esquiline ...

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd's knowledge of medicinal plants, according to a new Yale study. The study, by the ...