Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

Informative, entertaining, great illustrations. (Only wish it showed us how to pronounce all those Roman names.)

Very enjoyable read. So well written and researched by Prof. Beard. More than military campaigns or gossipy excessive indulgences. A text on how a great empire was run or expected to be run by great and not so great men and their staff, no matter the obstacles. I felt that I was allowed to walk in the background and observe. Recommended.

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Leider kann ich die aufgeührten positiven Rezessionen nicht nachvollziehen. Das Buch beinhaltet eine Reihe von detaillierten Ereignisse im römischen Kaiserreich, ohne irgendwelche zeitliche Zusammenhänge. Das Buch ist vielleicht interessant für Leser oder Leserinnen, english still reader,, die vom Römischen Kaierreich noch nie was gehört haben.

I love reading Mary Beard. Her books are clearly written for the general reader and are full of good stories and intentional anachronisms but also treat her readers as intelligent educated people. Her she does not present the expected biographies of the Roman emperors but rather presents what life was like for those emperors and those around him. What did they eat, how did they manage the government, did they travel, how they were selected etc? She tells us much but she also tells us what we don't know as well.