From Augustus to Constantine: History of Roman Emporers

History professor Strauss (The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination) explores the reigns of Rome's ten most influential emperors in his captivating modern take on Suetonius's 121 CE history, The Twelve Caesars. He covers most of the emperors who ruled during the empire's first 300 years of existence, a crowded timeline that begins with the bloody end of the republic under Augustus and ends with the reforms of Diocletian and the startling religious conversion of his successor Constantine.