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Josiah Osgood

Josiah Osgood is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is the author of How to Be a Bad Emperor (Princeton, 2020).


How to be a truly terrible leader: What Caligula, Julius Caesar, and the bad Roman emperors can teach us
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How to be a truly terrible leader: What Caligula, Julius Caesar, and the bad Roman emperors can teach us

Thursday March 5, 2020

By Josiah Osgood

  • Australian Capital Territory

The Roman biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus believed power doesn’t corrupt so much as it allows one’s worst, preexisting instincts to go unchecked. His epic biography, Lives of…


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