Title: The twelve caesars
Description: One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned; another earned the nickname 'sphincter artist'. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide - and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the 'twelve Caesars' - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. Under their rule, from 49 BC to AD 96, Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire, whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years.
Subjects: Emperors, Biography, History, Emperors, rome, Rome, history, empire, 30 b.c.-476 a.d., Rome, biography, Empereurs, Biographies, Histoire
Places: Rome
Time periods: Flavians, 69-96, Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.