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TEN CAESARS - BARRY STRAUSS GEBUNDEN

Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers an exceptionally accessible history of
the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones (The Wall Street
Journal)-a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the
lives of ten of the most important emperors  from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential
and enlightening (The New York Times Book Review) work  Barry Strauss tells the story of the
Roman Empire from rise to reinvention  from Augustus  who founded the empire  to Constantine 
who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome
gained in splendor and territory  then lost both. By the fourth century  the time of
Constantine  the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography  ethnicity  religion 
and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome's legacy remains
today in so many ways  from language  law  and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic
Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it:
Augustus  Tiberius  Nero  Vespasian  Trajan  Hadrian  Marcus Aurelius  Septimius Severus 
Diocletian and Constantine. Over the ages  they learned to maintain the family business-the
government of an empire-by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost.
Ten Caesars is a captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative
figures (Publishers Weekly). This superb summation of four centuries of Roman history  a
masterpiece of compression  confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing
for the general reader today (The Wall Street Journal).

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