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: 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: 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: 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 -Caligula- ISBN: 1515429172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515429173 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Suetonius, Lindsay H. Название: Suetonius: Caligula ISBN: 1853993751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853993756 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 3711.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials. It provides a major statement of the nature and aspirations of crime science, and presents a series of case studies providing examples, in different settings, of the approach in action, ranging from preventing crime within correctional institutions to the use of techniques such as DNA fast tracking for burglary.
Автор: Wallace-Hadrill A., Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Название: Suetonius ISBN: 1853994510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853994517 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 3414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian`s career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius`s life.
Автор: Suetonius Название: Claudius ISBN: 1517120543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517120542 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1921.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Suetonius, Jones Brian W. Название: Suetonius: Vespasian ISBN: 1853995843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853995842 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 3414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. This edition of Suetonius` biography (the first since 1930) offers a newly revised text with a general introduction and detailed commentary.
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