Book Review: Andrew Roberts considers a new survey of Rome from Augustus to Constantine
There havebeen many attempts to tell the story of the Roman Empire from the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. to the death of Constantine in A.D. 337, but they generally suffer from the fact that many of the more than 50 emperors during that period were fairly nondescript.
Barry Strauss, a classics professor at Cornell University and the author of several books on the ancient world, has hit upon a way around the problem, taking his cue from Suetonius, whose “Twelve Caesars,” though a great work, was written fairly early in the empire’s history and thus lacked the full range of leaders from which to choose. Mr....
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