Iggulden (Emporer: The Field of Swords) saves the best for last in the fourth and final novel of his well-received Emperor series, following the life of Julius Caesar. Caesar's story is a familiar one ...
Augustus was the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BCE to 14 CE. He was the great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, who had established a dictatorship but was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated in 44 BCE.
Emperors are generally recognised to be of the highest monarchic honour and rank, surpassing kings.
Emperor: Directed by Mark Amin. With Dayo Okeniyi, M.C. Gainey, Antonio D Kanonu, James Cromwell. An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
An emperor is a sovereign who rules an empire or claims imperial dignity, a title rooted in Rome and later adopted across Europe and Asia [1]. Definitions and usages vary by culture and era—Roman, Holy Roman, Chinese and Japanese examples show divergent legal, religious and ceremonial meanings [2] [3] [4].
The word emperor is a general word for a ruler having total control of a country or region. There are similar words for such all-powerful rulers in various countries: the Caesars in ancient Rome, the czars in Russia, the kaisers in Germany.
emperor (plural emperors) The male monarch or ruler of an empire. In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor to evaluate his predecessor after the latter's death. Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor. The ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world ...