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Festival of History 2023 - Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
In her latest book, Mary Beard focuses on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not the usual chronological account of Roman rulers: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
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I see small parallels in ancient Rome, ancient Egypt and ancient China in longetvity....when rulers are, or become, worshiped as gods or godlike. Once the " godliness or divine right" slips away.... I see a change, if not demise of the civilization or culture.