Roman Emperors: Good, Bad, and Crazy

by Gregory S. Aldrete

Follow the fortunes of the empire during the two centuries following Augustus and Tiberius, which included not only some of Rome's wisest and most conscientious emperors, like Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, but also some of its most notorious and deranged tyrants, like Caligula and Nero.

Length: 28 mins

Genres: History, Nonfiction

1 pages, Audible Audio

Published December 16, 2011

Reviews

[Sarah Hoov · Rating 5 out of 5]

**Warning: this text may contain spoilers** This is one of my favorite great course lectures. Very informative as well as entertaining. You can tell the lecturer thoroughly loves what he is talking about and finds some aspects very entertaining. Like the cat and mouse game between one of the emperors and his mother. This is one of my favorite parts of this lecture although gruesome at the end. Its explained, how you would imagine a cartoonist explains their story boards. Rather then a horrible aspect of history you can better absorb it.

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a 30 minute lecture from the Great Courses series "History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective". He runs through 2 centuries of Roman emperors, good, bad and crazy as the title says. I really loved it.

I'll definitely listen to this lecture again.