How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders What would Caligula do? But that insight is hardly new. What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent…
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How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
What would Caligula do? But that insight is hardly new. What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example.
He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero.
Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing
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