“Historian Cassius Dio talks about an animal that he refers to as a cameleopard,” says Scott. A cameleopard may evoke the image of a mysterious exotic big cat, but it’s what ancient Romans ...

Along with the later writings of Dio Cassius, the work of Tacitus and Suetonius still form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD. Where to next: ...

Cassius Dio, a senator and contemporary of Elagabalus, writes in his historical chronicles that the emperor was married five times - four times to women, and once to Hiercoles, ...