Source: Law & Liberty
by Sarah Skwire
“Mary Beard’s excellent new book, Emperor of Rome, begins with a timeline of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus that gives each emperor’s years of reign, a quick fact or two, and often, his manner of death. But these three pages are the last time that Beard presents her readers with anything like a forced march through Roman history. … Instead, Beard is interested in cutting through the stultifying lists of names and the accumulated weight of sensationalist stories attached to them to work out what Roman emperors did with their time. What was, roughly, the job description of the emperor? How was their work carried out? Putting aside misbegotten impressions from centuries of propaganda, what was the life of the emperor really like?” (12/11/24)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/what-did-roman-emperors-do-all-day/