What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. 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. 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 almost incalculable damage.
Complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry. We meet Caesar, using his aunt's funeral to brag about his descent from gods and kings--and hiding his bald head with a comb-over and a laurel crown; Tiberius, neglecting public affairs in favor of wine, perverse sex, tortures, and executions; the insomniac sadist Caligula, flaunting his skill at cruel put-downs; and the matricide Nero, indulging his mania for public performance.
In a world bristling with strongmen eager to cast themselves as the Caesars of our day, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character.
Автор: Robert Graves,Suetonius Название: The Twelve Caesars ISBN: 0140455167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140455168 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that came with his successors.
Автор: Tranquillus Gaius Suetonius Название: In Quinti Horatii Flacci Vitam... ISBN: 1249965535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249965534 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Tranquillus G. Suetonius Название: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars -Vespasian, Titus & Domitian- ISBN: 1617205796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617205798 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings.
The Twelve Caesars is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history.
Автор: Suetonius Название: The Twelve Caesars ISBN: 1781399387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781399385 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power," - Suetonius on Julius Caesar.
"Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system,"Suetonius.
The Twelve Caesars-Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian-created an empire which dominated the then-known world and influenced it for a millennium. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Suetonius, personal secretary to Emperor Trajan, used the Imperial Archives and eyewitness accounts to paint a portrait of absolute power.
His format and style set the tone for Western biography - a review of ancestry and reign, but, mostly, a mirror to reflect the most ridiculous aspects of the character, and a vehicle for gossip. Julius Caesar does cross the Rubicon and is assassinated. Beyond that, we also learn that Caesar had piercing dark eyes and an unease about his baldness. Nero, we are told, employed over five thousand robust young men to learn various kinds of applause which they were to practice whenever he performed.
Suetonius, in full Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, was born in 69 AD and in 117 AD entered Trajan's imperial service, holding many offices until 122 AD when he was dismissed. Suetonius wrote a number of biographies including On Famous Men, Lives of the Grammarians, and Lives of the Poets.
Автор: Suetonius Название: Twelve caesars ISBN: 1781394423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781394427 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5458.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For bookworms and lovers of bibliophile treasures, the Magneto Diary Antique Books 2023 by teNeues is exactly the right thing. Measuring 16 x 22cm, Its cover in vintage design is a daily invitation to bury oneself in books. The well-thought out features of this week to view diary make scheduling fun Inside you will find a ribbon bookmark that quickly refers you to the latest entry whilst a pocket on the inside back cover can be used to store business cards, receipts and similar things. Coloured book endpapers give the Diary a special appeal whilst the practical magnetic closure keeps the Diary securely closed. The clearly laid out Diary grid
Описание: What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits.Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius discuss the same historical figures and events of early imperial Rome, they are rarely examined together in one volume. Verena Schulz offers the first combined reading of their works from a philological viewpoint, analysing the various rhetorical techniques and narratological devices that they display, and the different literary and historical discourses in which they are embedded.
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