Contents

  1.  viii      List of Tables
  2.   ix      Preface
  3.    1      CHAPTER I
  4. The Emperor on the Mall: An Introduction
  5.   43      CHAPTER II
  6. Who’s Who in the Twelve Caesars
  7.   78      CHAPTER III
  8. Coins and Portraits, Ancient and Modern
  9. 118      CHAPTER IV
  10. The Twelve Caesars, More or Less
  11. 151      CHAPTER V
  12. The Most Famous Caesars of Them All
  13. 188      CHAPTER VI
  14. Satire, Subversion and Assassination
  15. 235      CHAPTER VII
  16. Caesar’s Wife … Above Suspicion?
  17. 274      CHAPTER VIII
  18. Afterword
  19. 287      Acknowledgements
  20. 289      Appendix: The Verses underneath Aegidius Sadeler’s Series of Emperors and Empresses
  21. 303      Notes
  22. 335      Bibliography
  23. 358      List of Illustrations
  24. 368      Index