

How to Be a Bad Emperor
An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
Author: Suetonius, Josiah Osgood, Josiah Osgood, Josiah Osgood
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 03/24/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Ancient History
Synopsis
How to Be a Bad Emperor is 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 matricidal Nero, indulging his mania for public performance.