Tacitus, respected for his critical eye on Roman politics, did not shy away from detailing the tyrannical nature of Rome's emperors. His accounts relied on official records, Senate proceedings ...

But since Julius Caesar, his nephew the emperor Augustus, and all of the Roman emperors down to Nero traced their own ancestry back to Aeneas and through him to Venus, her cult emphasized romantic ...

It didn't stop him from doing all of the kinds of unsavory things that Roman emperors were wont to do. But again, ... they are a part of the mainstream of Roman society. This is an imperial Jesus.

The Annals, written by the Roman historian Tacitus only 91 years after Jesus's death, begins with the death of Emperor Augustus in 14AD and finishes with Nero's suicide 54 years later.

Sis said the emperors “considered the worship of their polytheistic array of gods to be necessary for maintaining public order. “It was expressive of the character and aspirations of Roman ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...