Forthcoming book from Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World. “What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell?” Beard wrote the bestselling SPQR.
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