Emma Southon

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2021

Dr. Emma Southon holds a PhD in ancient history from the University of Birmingham. The author of Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West and Agrippina, she co-hosts a history podcast, with writer Janina Matthewson, called History Is Sexy and works full time as a bookseller at Waterstones Belfast.

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A 17th-century Swiss etching of Emperor Tiberius on horseback, by Matthäus Merian the Elder.

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Tiberius, Imperial Detective

In ancient Rome, murder was a private business, unless the emperor took an interest in the case.

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