TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suetonius
AU  - Osgood,Josiah
TI  - How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders 
T2  - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
SN  - 9780691193991
AV  - DG277.S7 
U1  - 937 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Emperors
KW  - Rome
KW  - Biography
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 12 caesars
KW  - Barry Strauss
KW  - Claudius
KW  - De Vita Caesarum
KW  - Donald Trump
KW  - Dynasty
KW  - Lives of the Twelve Caesars
KW  - Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
KW  - Robert Graves
KW  - Rome burns
KW  - Suetonius translation
KW  - Ten Caesars
KW  - Tom Holland
KW  - absolute power
KW  - bad leadership
KW  - bad role models
KW  - burning of Rome
KW  - corruption
KW  - dictators
KW  - executions
KW  - ineffective leadership
KW  - perversion
KW  - sadism
KW  - sex life
KW  - torture
KW  - what leaders shouldn’t do
KW  - what not to do as a leader
KW  - worst leaders of all time
KW  - worst leaders
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; Ignore Bad Omens . . . and Your Wife: Julius Caesar (100– 44 b.c.) --; Spend All Your Time at Your Resort: Tiberius (42 b.c.– a.d. 37) --; Make Your Horse a Consul: Gaius Caligula (a.d. 12– 41) --; Fiddle While Rome Burns: Nero (a.d. 37– 64) --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Further Reading; restricted access
N2  - What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable damage.Complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry. We meet Caesar, using his aunt's funeral to brag about his descent from gods and kings—and hiding his bald head with a comb-over and a laurel crown; Tiberius, neglecting public affairs in favor of wine, perverse sex, tortures, and executions; the insomniac sadist Caligula, flaunting his skill at cruel put-downs; and the matricide Nero, indulging his mania for public performance.In a world bristling with strongmen eager to cast themselves as the Caesars of our day, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691200941?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691200941
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691200941/original
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