The Emperor Who Threw a Dinner Party in a Black Room

The dangerous part of the letter wasn't the sums. It was the greeting. Discover how "lord and god" worked as office procedure rather than religion, why the phrase appears on no coin and no stone, how Domitian paid his army, and why the Senate that voted for everything got to write the history afterwards. Monster or manager? Comment and subscribe! #Domitian #AncientRome #RomanEmperors #Suetonius #PiazzaNavona #History One thing I left off deliberately: Cornelia. The burial of a chief priestess of Vesta is the most shocking documented thing in the reign and it's the one I wouldn't draw — a bright cartoon of a woman being lowered into a sealed chamber is a thumbnail nobody should have to scroll past, and Pliny's account deserves the narration instead. The black dinner gives you the same dread with none of that, and it has the better visual anyway.