Emma Southon

Emma Southon is a British historian of ancient Rome, born in Brighton. She holds a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Birmingham (2013); her doctoral research was published as Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West.

After several years teaching ancient and medieval history and academic writing, she left academia to write and podcast full time.

She is the author of Agrippina (a biography of the mother of Nero), A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and A Rome of One's Own (published in the UK as A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women).

She co-hosts the podcast History Is Sexy with Janina Matthewson and works as a bookseller at Waterstones in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she lives.