EMPEROR OF ROME

Owain Williams

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the ancient Roman world By Mary Beard ISBN: 978-1805220220 Profile Books (2023) - £30.00 www.profilebooks.com Most people will associate ancient Rome with its emperors. This is hardly surprising. The most iconic archaeological sites, especially those in Rome – the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill, and so on – are associated with the emperors. The most well-known literary sources are concerned, first and foremost, with the actions of the emperor. Emperor of Rome seeks to explore the many stories about Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Severus Alexander, and read between the lines of these stories – asking who, when, where, and why – to understand why, and by what metric, emperors were considered 'good' or 'bad'. In other words, Beard wants to understand “what it meant to…

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