Dr Shushma Malik

Historian

Shushma Malik is Onassis Classics Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and author of The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

Recent articles by Dr Shushma Malik

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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, G., 162–133 BC “Death of Tiberius Gracchus”.
(Rome, 133 BC, Tiberius Gracchus is slain by the senators with 200 of his supporters). Steel engraving, unmarked From: Picture gallery to the general. Weltgesch. By C. v. Rotteck, Karlsruhe and Freiburg (B. Herder) 1842.
Later coloring.

Thinkpiece The long death of the Roman republic . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Roman Forum in Rome, Italy (Photo by Olgacov | Dreamstime.com)

Rome history Emperors, popes and Renaissance glory . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cities new WL

Episode 3 Rome . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor.

Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors

A bust of Marcus Aurelius and a detail on Marcus Aurelius’s column in Rome

Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s reluctant killer

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Shushma Malik explores the life and career of Rome’s renowned philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. (Image by Getty Images)

Marcus Aurelius: thinker or fighter? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shushma Malik discusses some of the most admired and reviled Roman emperors, and considers whether the legends surrounding them stand up to scrutiny. (Image by Getty Images)

The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marble bust of Nero

Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?

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Portrait head of Roman Emperor Nero circa AD 59-64. (Photo by Alamy)

Nero: Rome’s Antichrist? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.