Status Updates From Emperor of Rome

Chapter 3: Details of emperors dining. The interesting, weird and funny details. Clearly an oppurtnity across dynasty’s to flex power dynamics and view potential threats

Chapter 2: The complications around choosing of successors in Rome. Revisionism around emperors ruling bound to the circumstances in which they pass. Lots of talk about Pliny in first 2 chapters.

Incredibly clear and descriptive account of the establishment of Roman autocracy. From the death of Caesar to Augustan rule and legacy. Fascinating facts of the constitutional changes of republic into empire and how the ‘democracy’ functioned. Senators ambiguous powers and the tug of war between senator and emperor.