ALTHOUGH THE BOOK IS TITLED “TEN CAESARS,” THE MOST INTERESTING CHAPTERS ARE ON AUGUSTUS, HADRIAN, CONSTANTINE AND THEN THE EPILOGUE, THE GHOSTS OF REVENNA. THE EPILOGUE SPEAKS TO EMPEROR JUSTINIAN. JUSTINIAN BUILT THE WORLD’S LARGEST CATHEDRAL FOR 1,000 YEARS. WHEN HE BUILT IT, HE PROCLAIMED “SOLOMAN, I HAVE OUTDONE THEE.” THE CHURCH HE FAMOUSLY BUILT WAS THE CHURCH OF HOLY WISDOM, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS HAGIA SOPHIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

READING ABOUT AUGUSTUS, HADRIAN AND CONSTANTINE EDUCATES A YOUNG PERSON’S MIND ABOUT HOW THE ROMAN EMPIRE STARTED IN ROME, EVOLVED (THROUGH HADRIAN) AND ULTIMATELY THROUGH CONSTANTINE MIGRATED TOWARDS CONSTANTINOPLE, THE CITY NAMED FOR HIM. IT IS QUITE EVIDENT FROM THE READING OF THIS BOOK THAT THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST CEASED TO EXIST WHEN CONSTANTINE MOVED THE EMPIRE TO THE EAST AND CONCLUDED ANY EXISTENCE IN THE WEST WHEN JUSTINIAN RULED.

IT’S A GREAT STARTER BOOK ESPECIALLY FOR TEENAGERS INTERESTED IN THEIR HISTORY.

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