Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 432 p.
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, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople.
Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University, is a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written or edited several books, including
The Battle of Salamis,
The Trojan War,
The Spartacus War,
Masters of Command,
The Death of Caesar, and
Ten Caesars.