🎓 5 picks
From a free university lecture series to the big narrated survey courses — where to actually learn the emperors in order, not just read about them. Both paid and free, with what each is good for.
The classic narrated survey — Republic through empire, emperor by emperor. The one most people mean by “the Rome course.”
A full Yale course, free online — reads the empire through what its emperors built, from the Colosseum to Hadrian’s villa.
A long-running lecture podcast working through the emperors one at a time — free, deep, and easy to listen along a commute.
The free primer: short lessons and videos that lay the timeline and the key emperors down fast. Best starting point.
Focused squarely on the imperial centuries — a tighter companion to Fagan if you only want the emperors, not the Republic.