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The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of early Rome - Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman emperors who followed him - have profoundly impressed themselves upon the entire world. They bore the perilous responsibility of governing an empire similar in its gigantic magnitude and diversity to america and the Soviet Union of the 1980s. It is a matter of perennial matter to investigate how the potentates who wield such vast might, and the men who guide them, cope with their process, or neglect to cope with it. From what amount, for example, are we justified, after a study of the scorching web pages of Tacitus, in applying to the Roman Caesar Lord Acton's declaring that absolute electric power corrupts absolutely? This is one of lots of questions associated with their exercise of authority to which Michael Grant - phoning in additional sources of information such as cash and inscriptions - efforts to answer.
