num_pages: 256
description: In 27 BC after the civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate and given the title 'Augustus'. Emperors of Rome charts the 500 years that followed the death of Caesar and eventual triumph of Augustus an era during which Rome reached heights of economic prosperity and cultural achievement but also plumbed depths of anarchy cruelty and chaos.
language: English
title: Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor
publisher: Quercus