Tag Archives: Emperor Caligula

the opportunist

It was early evening. The sun had just set after the assassination of Pertinex. Rome was at dinner. In the imperial courtyard a body lay without a head. The head of the emperor was a few hundred yards outside the … Continue reading

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auctioned off: quickie sale

The night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. It was not merely an empire, it was the world. … In the second century A.D. Rome stretched across a million and a half square miles, from Scotland to the Sahara, from … Continue reading

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