Is the Roman Empire a One Man Rule?

Rome has been going towards some version of one man rule from the late second century b c. It's easy to be very nostalgic and romantic about the republic. But monarchy doesn't have a good reputation in the modern western world. We're very much the inheritors of a trition, of a metropolitan lete. I think it's pretty clear that b in the wilds of norfolk, you didn't know whos the emperor oend,. You might eventually, you might spot something on a coin. There's a funny late antique source which, its a joke, but it says, doyou know some people in my province here who think agamemnon still king?