Never the preferred heir, Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD / reigned 14 – 37 AD) soon showed why Augustus had wanted someone else. His political inability, poor judgment ...

Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe… All these names have in common being fictional detectives, born from the fertile imagination of writers from the ...

Julius Caesar, the emperors Augustus and Tiberius and the statesman-philosopher Cicero all had homes in Stabiae. Courtesy of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation and the Superintendency of ...

This was the original pleasure palace. In the sumptuous gardens, young men and women dressed as nubile nymphs and coquettish Pans openly prostituted themselves to guests in woodland 'lechery nooks' ...