Emperors of Rome

[1] The shape of Roman imperial history [2] The Roman Republic [3] Caesar and the suicide of the Republic [4] The first emperor: Augustus [5] The powers of Augustus [6] Succession woes [7] Livia Drusilla, empress of Rome [8] The early years of Tiberius [9] The would-be-emperor Sejanus [10] The mad emperor? Caligula [11] Killing Caligula, finding Claudius [12] The odd couple: Cladius and Messalina [13] Power and poison: Agrippina and Claudius [14] Artist and assassin: Nero [15] The trouble with Christians [16] Dynasty's end: the fall of Nero [17] The long year, A.D. 69 [18] The first Flavian: Vespasian [19] The last Flavians: Titus and Domitian [20] Pax Augusta: Nerva and Trajan [21] Trajan in Rome and in the East [22] The eccentric emperor: Hadrian [23] Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus [24] Marcus in the North and Commodus [25] Civil war and Septimius Severus [26] Caracalla and the Severan dynasty [27] Emperor and city [28] Emperor and empire [29] Emperor and elite [30] Emperor and people [31] Emperor and soldier [32] Chaos] [33] Aurelian, Diocletian, and the Tetrarchy [34] Constantine: rise to power [35] The Christian emperor: Constantine [36] Reflections on the emperors of Rome