The fabulous ego: absolute power in history

Sardanapalus (c. 800 B.C.).

Shih Huang Ti (259-210 B.C.).

Elagabalus (204-222).

Justinian (483-565) and Theodora (508-548).

Harun al-Rashid (764-809).

The once and future King of Cambodia (c. 1300).

Tamerlane (1336-1405).

Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503).

Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584).

Akbar the Great (1542-1605).

The Grand Signor (c. 1605).

Charles I (1600-1649).

Louis XV (1710-1774).

Catherine the Great (1729-1796).

Napoleon I (1769-1821).