But what of ancient Rome and Roman versions of female imperial power? What do we think of Roman “empresses”? Is there a model for power among the women of the Roman hierarchy? Many of us ...

Palatine Hill was the location of choice for imperial residences. The image shows the Palatine ruins from the former site of the Circus Maximus, the largest hippodrome in the Roman world.

Messalina’s true scandals were that she overstepped the defined boundaries of an empress’s appropriate place and engaged too openly in the cruel politics of the Roman imperial system ...

Designed in the Byzantine style, it features two gold and silver half-spheres, symbolizing the eastern and western Roman empires ... from the Imperial Scepter of Russian Empress Catherine the ...

Female members of the imperial family, the wives, daughters - and particularly - mothers of Roman emperors are some of the most colourful characters of Rome in the early imperial age; as described ...

MESSALINA: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World ... bride pulled into the bloody swirl of imperial politics. She starts her narrative under ...

Marius Mangeac found 1,469 coins dating back to the Roman Imperial Period ... The coins featured the faces of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius, according ...