Pax by Tom Holland review
An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.
Llewelyn Morgan
The Eunuch and the Emperor
Was the eunuch Earinus the lover of Domitian, one of Rome’s ‘Bad Emperors’? Llewelyn Morgan pieces together the extraordinary relationship between them.
Heads or Tails?
A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins.