part III. 25. Civil War and Septimus Severus ; 26. Caracalla and the Severan Dynasty ; 27. Emperor and city ; 28. Emperor and empire ; 29. Emperor and elite ; 30. Emperor and people ; 31. Emperor and soldier ; 32. Chaos ; 33. Aurelian, Diocletian, and the Tetrarchy ; 34. Constantine: rise to power ; 35. The Christian emperor: Constantine ; 36. Reflections on the emperors of Rome.
part I. 1. The shape of Roman imperial history ; 2. The Roman republic ; 3. Caesar and the suicide of the republic ; 4. The first emperor: Augustus ; 5. The powers of Augustus ; 6. Succession woes ; 7. Livia Drusilla, Empress of Rome ; 8. The early years of Tiberius ; 9. The would-be emperor: Sejanus ; 10. The mad emperor? Caligula ; 11. Killing Caligula, finding Claudius ; 12. The odd couple: Claudius and Messalina --
part II. 13. Power and poison: Agrippina and Claudius ; 14. Artist and assassin: Nero ; 15. The trouble with Christians ; 16. Dynasty's end: the fall of Nero ; 17. The long year, A.D. 69 ; 18. The first Flavian: Vespasian ; 19. The last Flavians: Titus and Domitian ; 20. Pax Augusta: Nerva and Trajan ; 21. Trajan in Rome and in the East ; 22. The eccentric emperor: Hadrian ; 23. Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus ; 24. Marcus in the North and Commodus --