The Roman caesars have been the rulers of the Roman Empire, starting in 27 BC with Julius Caesar’s inheritor Augustus, from whom subsequent caesars took their identify, and lasting till across the fall of the Western Empire in 476 AD. The caesars transitioned the Roman Republic to autocratic rule, consolidating huge territories beneath centralized authority and shaping Western governance, legislation, and tradition. Their reign marked one among historical past’s most influential intervals, laying the groundwork for contemporary empires and enduring legacies in political and architectural innovation.
In addition they left behind some instructive management classes, in each what and what to not do.
Right here to unpack a few of the Roman Empire’s most vital caesars as each histories and management case research is Barry Strauss, who’s a classicist, professor, army historian, fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Establishment, and the writer of quite a few books, together with Ten Caesars. As we speak on the present, Barry shares how Augustus consolidated energy by initially cleansing home, a redeeming high quality of the in any other case notorious Nero, the methods Vespasian and Severus used to achieve legitimacy as outsiders, why Marcus Aurelius was an insightful thinker however struggled as an emperor, the emperor beneath whose rule the empire started its decline, what Constantine understood about the concept if you’d like issues to remain the identical, the whole lot should change, and way more.
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