The grandeur and the decadence, the cunning and the brutality, the surprising prominence of imperial women in a man’s world, and the practical wisdom that allowed Rome to maintain its rule over millions for centuries before finally losing its grip in the West: it’s all there in one book. Ten Caesars – now one of Amazon’s choices for best books …
The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display of Debauchery and Power
I enjoyed talking with Nina Martyris of NPR about how Imperial Rome partied.
TEN CAESARS Special Guest Episode on History of Ancient Greece Podcast
I had a great time talking with Ryan about my book and I enjoyed our lively conversation.
Why These Ten Caesars Explain Rome and the US: My podcast interview with The Octavian Report
Insights ancient and modern in a conversation with Richard Hurowitz on The Rostrum
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg: What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us? My Podcast Interview
My podcast interview with pirate host, the great Jack Butler.
What CEO’s can Learn from Roman Emperors
My interview with [email protected]
“Ambition, Cunning, and Cruelty”: TEN CAESARS Book Review
“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, biographer of Churchill and Napoleon, in the Wall Street Journal.
“I highly recommend Barry Strauss’ Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine.”
“From beginning to end, Strauss’ storytelling captured my attention with vivid descriptions of historical moments and nuanced presentations of the Caesars. … The style of writing is both informative and engaging, erudite and captivating. Though focused on individual Caesars, he artfully frames each Caesar within his respective social, political, familial, and religious world, permitting him to narrate a story with …
Women in Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History.
Here’s my take at time.com.
TEN CAESARS Offers Lessons from History’s Greatest Leaders
Stepping into the shoes of a god wasn’t easy! So we learn in a new book that traces the biographies of 10 of the men who succeeded Julius Caesar, deified by the Roman Senate. Read the article in Cornell Chronicle here.
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