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Emperors of Rome Hardcover – September 1, 2008

by David Potter (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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In 27 BC, after the civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar, Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate and given the title 'Augustus'. "Emperors of Rome" charts the 500 years that followed the death of Caesar and eventual triumph of Augustus, an era during which Rome reached heights of economic prosperity and cultural achievement, but also plumbed depths of anarchy, cruelty and chaos.

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    256 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Quercus
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    8.75 x 1.25 x 11 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1847240100
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1847240101
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quercus; First Edition (September 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847240100
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847240101
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.42 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 1.25 x 11 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well-Written and Thoughtful
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2013
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This book was a pleasure to read. It is well-written and gives a thoughtful overview of centuries of history. As a graduate student in classics, I found it a valuable way to review topics I had read about in other books.
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5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BOOK
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2016
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A GOOD BOOK ON HISTORY AND BIBLE.
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Peter S. Mizla
4.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2021
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lots of excellent maps and illustrations mae this a great coffee table book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2016
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great
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2015
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Impressive!
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Joel Hammer
4.0 out of 5 stars Fine,simple summary of the Roman rulers.
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016
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The book was in good condition. It is a handy reference, but, you really need to know more that what is in this book.
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John Harrison
4.0 out of 5 stars Imperial Rome, well explained
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2008
It is a shame that so few academic histories are as well written as this book. Although it is difficult to encompass all of Imperial Rome in one volume, particularly in one with the many excellent illustrations contained in this book, nonetheless David Potter succeeds as well as any author ever has. Only at the already confusing end of the empire does the book falter. However, with the beginning and middle of the empire, and delightfully with the fascinating, but relatively unknown, Aetius at the end of the empire, Potter pulls it off magnificently. It is simply, a great read about remarkable people.

While the book looks like a coffee table decoration, it reads like a novel. You get to know the characters that made, maintained and lost the greatest empire ever. You understand their motivations and their challenges: personal, institutional, and religious. After reading the book, you will surprise yourself when you encounter a situation in your own life and find you remember these circumstances, the solutions tried and found wanting by Rome, and most important what worked. It is in these explanations that Potter excels.

It was not that Rome did not know how to continue as a great empire - her leaders chose not to, and the people of Rome let them. Potter explores this in detail, with marked lessons for our own time, leaders and people.
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Grey Wolffe
3.0 out of 5 stars Did Anybody Read this Book Before it was Published?
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2009
Though I agree with my colleague above as to his point about the readability of this book; the editing (or lack thereof) makes parts of the book downright confusing. Not only are names misspelled in places, but places and dates are wrong because of typos. At one point in the text Potter mentions that so-and-so did such-and-such in 274AD; but in the side picture comment the date is listed as 74AD. That's just bad editing.

At other times in the little side vignettes there are bas reliefs and paintings and when they mention someone to the left of so-and-so; they mean so-and-so's left not to the left from your vantage point. It's especially difficult when so many of the characters seem to have the same name or change their names that it's like watching a football game with all the players wearing only five numbers among them. The worst part is making sense of what happens after Constantine dies and is replace by his sons Constantius, Constantine and Constans. Sometimes one or the other has their son mentioned who has the same name or their grandfather's (Constantine). Can't tell the players even with a scorecard.

It becomes especially difficult at the end in the late 300 and 400's AD, when the empire has been effectively split into three empires and the children have names of their grandparents or uncles or famous cousins and they get busy marrying each others sisters. It's worse than a soap opera. (Even Susan Lucci (Erika Kane) who has been married fourteen times has nothing on these people.) In the end the Eastern Empire fell because it no longer supplied soldiers to the army but depended on mercenaries who finally said, we now own the Empire.

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Georges
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent livre
Reviewed in France on August 27, 2019
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Le livre est venu à temps, très bien emballé et en presque excellent état. Très bien illustré, le livre peut servir comme un guide facile sur l'histoire des empereurs romains.
Un seul problème, il y a un odeur assez désagréable probablement à cause d'un stockage inadapté dans un endroit humide.
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Professor Alan J. Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars A concise history on Rome's emperors
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2013
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I like this book as it is concise and very well illustrated. I actually saw it first in a bookshop in Rome and vowed to buy a copy on my return ti the UK. It's a good price and very good value if you are looking for snapshot histories of the emperors. I found a few errors but nothing serious.
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Cssor
5.0 out of 5 stars Good information on a massive subject.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2018
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I found this quite good as it gives a brief but reasonable amount of information, from the first to the last emperor of Rome, which for me was adequate.
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mr julian r moss
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2014
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David J Offord
3.0 out of 5 stars Good For A Headache
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 18, 2019
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The modern layout and sometimes incoherent writing means that tis book is good only for a younger readership not yet seriously looking for a study of the exercise of absolute power and the corruption thereof and of how the empire nevertheless survived the grabs for that power and the weakening civil wars for so long..
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