Meet the legendary TV historian, Mary Beard, as she shines a lively yet scholarly spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus.
Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers one after another – the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius – but presents an authoritative account of the colourful personalities who occupied the position of emperor over the centuries.
Beard asks the bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering a fascinating insight into Roman history as it has never been presented before.
