How to Be a Bad Emperor
An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable damage. In a world bri…
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Weitere Autoren: Osgood, Josiah (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-19399-1
- EAN: 9780691193991
- Produktnummer: 32590916
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H17.1 cm x B11.4 cm
Über den Autor
Josiah Osgood is professor and chair of classics at Georgetown University and the author of many books, including Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 BCE. He lives in Washington, DC.
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