Catharine Edwards

Catharine Edwards FBA is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars (2008) and recently published an edition of selected letters of the Younger Seneca (Cambridge, 2019). She was presenter of the television series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (BBC Four) and is a regular contributor to the radio show In Our Time.

Catharine Edwards FBA is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars (2008) and recently published an edition of selected letters of the Younger Seneca (Cambridge, 2019). She was presenter of the television series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (BBC Four) and is a regular contributor to the radio show In Our Time. See less