Julia Domna can stake a claim to being one of the most influential women of the Roman Empire. Aside from perhaps the ...

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 ...

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 ...