World of Royalty Blog

Marble head of Emperor Titus found

Gladiators to ‘fight’ again at Rome’s Colosseum

I seem to see articles about Roman emperor Hadrian everywhere I go online these days, and here’s another one:
The ‘peaceful’ Hadrian and his endless wars

Hadrian: Empire & Conflict by Thorsten Opper is available from Amazon.com.

The movie Memoirs of Hadrian, based on a novel of the same name by Marguerite Yourcenar, will reportedly star Antonio Banderas as the Roman emperor.

A famous Roman symbol, the Lupa Capitolina (Capitoline Wolf) doesn’t date from ancient Rome, after all.

Off the wall

Rudin to produce I, Claudius — DiCaprio to star?