Emperors of Rome: The Monsters - From Tiberius to Elagabalus, AD 14-222 Paul ChrystalPaperback / softback
Emperors of Rome: The Monsters - From Tiberius to Elagabalus, AD 14-222 Paul ChrystalPaperback / softback As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The bad, on the other hand,…
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Emperors of Rome: The Monsters - From Tiberius to Elagabalus, AD 14-222 Paul ChrystalPaperback / softback
As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than monsters, exhibiting varying degrees of corruption, cruelty, depravity and insanity. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180) were largely civilized and civilizing.
Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracella, Elagabalus, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, Maximinus Thrax, Justinian and Theodora all had more bad days than good; they are all covered in this book.Their exploits have, of course, been well documented since classical times but much of the coverage can only be called gratuitous, sensationalist or tabloid. This It is a sobering thought that these ogres were responsible for governing the greatest civilization in the world, simultaneously terrorizing, brutalizing and massacring.