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Coming up on forum, Roman emperors have long provided a template for autocrats and a warning for politicians, according to acclaimed historian Mary Beard.

Though not all emperors were cruel, bloodthirsty, or decadent, Beard's new book,

Emperor of Rome, looks at the daily practicalities of their lives as they manage budgets and

troop deployments and responded to petitions from their subjects.

It also examines the soldiers, aristocrats, and the enslaved who made the imperial system function and how the populace regarded

or constructed the figure of their emperor, all making us rethink the image of unbridled power

and conquest so often ascribed to the emperor of Rome. Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

The Roman Empire continues to fascinate us, most recently expressed in a TikTok trend

that had users asking the men in their lives how often they think about it.

But we also turn to ancient Rome when feeling anxious about our democracy or the rise of autocracy, looking for parallels.

Perhaps no figure from ancient Rome has captured our imaginations more than the Roman Emperor,

and in renowned historian Mary Beard's new book, she uses the role of the Emperor to better understand as she writes how the Romans

themselves understood, debated, and contested a vision of power that still hangs over us.

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