This book came recommended by a friend so I dove right in. But taking the chapter 'Fourteen Emperors' as an example, she is so busy letting us know where Suetonius's Twelve Emperors might be faulty, we never get a clear idea of the fourteen emperors between Tiberius and Commodus. She tries to fill in the blanks by offering alternative interpretations of what may have happened. In short this book was both a fascinating insight in to Roman history but also exposed how certain forms of governance have not changed in all these years. Archived from the original on 13 August I just remember the stories and find everything absolutely fascinating. Or the sixteenth? I used to read a ton of it but, for reasons I can't recall or explain, I stopped quite a few years ago, focusing entirely on fiction.

But expansion put great power in the hands of individual commanders. One thing became clear quite quickly: thanks to the combined efforts of Monty Python and Eddie Izzard, I am entirely unable to take the ancient Romans in any way seriously. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. I knew vaguely of names and the fact the Roman Empire existed. Birthplace of so many impressive inventions we take for granted nowadays. It was the empire itself, Beard persuasively argues, that ultimately produced the rule of the emperors. The same fundamental mechanisms, structures and dynamics run on until AD then there is a shift towards late antiquity and a Christian Empire, implicitly something so deeply different that it would require another book.

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