From the September 2021 Issue The Case of the Missing Emperor Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern By Mary Beard LR
From the February 2021 Issue Did He Really Fiddle? Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty By Anthony A Barrett LR
From the November 2015 Issue First among Equals Augustus: The Biography By Jochen Bleicken (Translated by Anthea Bell) LR
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