PositiveThe New York Times Book Review\"... engaging ... even before opening the first page of Ten Caesars, the reader feels a debt of gratitude to Strauss for scything off a superfluous 60-plus rulers and concentrating on a manageable number. The table of contents shows that he has further simplified things by giving each emperor an epithet ... The strength of [this book\'s] approach is that it offers perspective. All too often books on Rome, like literary grand tourists, revisit the familiar sites, lingering over the naughty Neros, the effective armies and the efficient bureaucracy. But, as Strauss shows, Rome was far more complex and far more interesting than that ... Strauss is not an author to balk either at cliché... or anachronism ... [Passages containing such clichés or anachronisms,] even in passing, is not merely oversimplification but misrepresentation — and mars an otherwise enlightening book.\
