
Emperors of Rome
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Narrated by:
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Garrett G. Fagan
About this listen
What sort of men were the Roman emperors (and were they all men)? What background and training, if any, prepared them for their awesome responsibilities? What depravities did they display? And what achievements can they claim: laws passed, monuments built, lands and peoples conquered?
Dive into these questions and more with this introduction to the complex personalities of emperors such as Augustus, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. These thirty-six gripping lectures bring to life the many emperors of Rome from the turn of the 1st century to the transition to the Middle Ages. For more than five centuries, these emperors-a checkered mix of the wise, the brutal, and the unhinged-presided over a multi-ethnic empire that was nearly always at war.
Professor Fagan takes you deep into ancient Rome, asking: How did this system of rule come about? What did it replace? And who were the colorful, cruel, and crafty men who filled the almost omnipotent post of emperor? One of the most intriguing questions about the emperorship is why it endured for so long.
As you witness the reigns of the successive rulers unfold, you will see how the office evolved with the political forces that sustained it, becoming more and more tightly bound to the military. Each step toward despotism was taken with a view toward expedience. But when that step became the new normal, it paved the way for the next step, and so on. As you explore these questions, you'll also study the amalgam of eyewitness reports, later compilations, archaeological remains, and inscriptions on monuments and coins. Contemporary accounts, when available, are not necessarily to be trusted, which means you play the role of detective, sifting for the truth of this spellbinding era.
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©2007 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2007 The Great CoursesExcellent in a number of different ways
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the lecturer is strong and factual, follows up where his previois series left off.
good
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Great
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Very good but repetitive with other class
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The lecturer is key: he writes and reads the script. Prof Fagan is a good writer but an indifferent performer, but to be fair reading 20+ hours of lecture is quite a task.
Emperors run through
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Gets no better than this
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Will have to listen to again as too much to digest.
Excellent
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Really insightful, broad and well paced... Fab!!!
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That being said I struggled with the narration & delivery of this.. I can understand that it will be difficult to give the reading without making errors bit for me far to many er’s, and ahh’s with pausing and repeating the beginning of a sentence.
If you can get past this though I would recommend
Enjoyable
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An insight into the roman world and their leaders
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