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ISBN: 0691200947 0691193991 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. 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.Complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry. We meet Caesar, using his aunt's funeral to brag about his descent from gods and kings-and hiding his bald head with a comb-over and a laurel crown; Tiberius, neglecting public affairs in favor of wine, perverse sex, tortures, and executions; the insomniac sadist Caligula, flaunting his skill at cruel put-downs; and the matricide Nero, indulging his mania for public performance.In a world bristling with strongmen eager to cast themselves as the Caesars of our day, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character.
Emperors --- Rome --- History --- 12 caesars. --- Barry Strauss. --- Claudius. --- De Vita Caesarum. --- Donald Trump. --- Dynasty. --- Lives of the Twelve Caesars. --- Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar. --- Robert Graves. --- Rome burns. --- Suetonius translation. --- Ten Caesars. --- Tom Holland. --- absolute power. --- bad leadership. --- bad role models. --- burning of Rome. --- corruption. --- dictators. --- executions. --- ineffective leadership. --- perversion. --- sadism. --- sex life. --- torture. --- what leaders shouldn’t do. --- what not to do as a leader. --- worst leaders of all time. --- worst leaders.
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ISBN: 9065693114 9789065693112 Year: 1983 Volume: 104 Publisher: Brussel : Koninklijke academie voor wetenschappen, letteren en schone kunsten van België,
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Classical Latin literature --- Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius --- Emperors --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Suetonius, --- Sources --- Rome --- History --- Historiography --- 871 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS --- Archives --- -Emperors --- -937 --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Kings and rulers --- Monarchy --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Manuscripts --- Documentation --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Public records --- Latijnse literatuur--SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS --- -History and criticism --- Geschiedenis van Rome tot 476 --- Depositories --- Repositories --- Suetonius --- -Sources --- -Historiography. --- -Archives --- History and criticism. --- 937 Geschiedenis van Rome tot 476 --- 871 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS Latijnse literatuur--SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS --- -Classical Latin literature --- literature [humanities] --- Ancient Latin [language] --- -871 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS --- 937 --- Biography&delete& --- K. Svetoniĭ Trankvill, --- Sueton, --- Suétone, --- Suetone Tranquile, --- Suetonius Tranquillus, C. --- Suetonius Tranquillus, C., --- Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius, --- Sveton, --- Svetonio, --- Svetonio Tranquillo, Gaio, --- Tranquillus, Gaius Suetonius, --- Светоний, --- סוטוניוס --- Sources. --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Historiography. --- Czars (Emperors) --- Tsars --- Tzars --- literature [discipline] --- Biography&delete&&delete& --- 937 History of ancient Rome (to 476 AD) --- History of ancient Rome (to 476 AD) --- Suétone --- Suetonio --- Emperors - Rome - Biography - History and criticism --- Suetonius, - approximately 69-approximately 122 - De vita Caesarum --- Suetonius, - approximately 69-approximately 122 - Sources --- Rome - History - Julio-Claudians, 30 BC-68 AD - Historiography --- Rome - History - Flavians, 69-96 - Historiography --- Suetonius, - approximately 69-approximately 122 --- literary studies
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