Kieren Johns

As kingmakers, tyrant slayers, and occasionally loyal protectors, the Praetorian Guards often found themselves at the center of Roman politics, including political conspiracies.

The Battle of Strasbourg was a decisive Roman victory over the Alamanni to secure the northern frontiers and Julian’s rise as the last pagan emperor.

After Athens rebelled during the First Mithridatic War, Sulla led the armies of the Roman Republic east in vengeance, besieging and laying waste to Athens.

Prophesied to be the wife of a king, Julia Domna came from Rome’s eastern frontier to become the matriarch of the Severan dynasty.

A daughter of the Titans, Selene was the Greek goddess of the moon. She appears throughout Greek mythology in divine wars and torrid love affairs.

Iris, divine messenger and daughter of Titans, was the goddess of the rainbow. She blazed a colorful streak through mythology.

Marcus Aurelius is remembered as one of Rome’s greatest “Golden Age” emperors. Is this reputation deserved? His reign, from Meditations to nepotism.

Dive into the controversial life of Emperor Elagabalus, whose controversial reforms saw him scorned by history for his eccentric personality.