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“An exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...Much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones... 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.” —Andrew Roberts, *The Wall Street Journal * Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. Barry Strauss’s Ten Caesars is 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. The empire reached from modern-day Britain to Iraq, and gradually emperors came not from the old families of the first century but from men born in the provinces, some of whom had never even seen Rome. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would

Author

Barry S Strauss

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451668858

Subjects

Historical Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (1,008 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14