On September 4, 476, the teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus was forcibly deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic general in the Roman army. Augustulus had only reigned for 10 months and was the last in a ...
The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...
The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...
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