Video chat: Josiah Osgood on how to be a bad emperor

Welcome to another entry in our occasional series of video chats with authors and translators who have written about the philosophy, culture, and history of the Greco-Roman tradition.

In this episode I talk to Josiah Osgood, a historian of Rome who researches the fall of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. His first book, Caesar’s Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2006) explores the civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar and its memorialization in literature. In subsequ...