Academic Emma Southon, discusses Caesar, Augustus and Caligula and comes to the controversial conclusion that the latter should be considered the real 'First Emperor'.
Academic Emma Southon summarises and discusses a lecture by Stanford historian Walter Schreidel, which gives a statistical analysis of how the Roman monarchy compares to other dynasties across human history in terms of reign, dynastic lengths and death by violence.
This page gives images of this object (now in the British Museum) and and details of its story. It demonstrates the dissemination of images of the emperor across the whole Roman empire, and is also an example of defiance through local reaction and vandalism.
