Twelve Caesars by Dennison, Matthew
Twelve Caesars by Dennison, Matthew

Twelve Caesars

An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an...
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Author: Matthew Dennison
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Twelve Caesars by Dennison, Matthew

Twelve Caesars

$56.91
Twelve Caesars by Dennison, Matthew

Twelve Caesars

$56.91
Author: Matthew Dennison
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars

One of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname "sphincter artist". Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide--and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the "twelve Caesars"--Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Under their rule, from 49 BC to AD 96, Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire, whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years.

Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colorful biographies of each emperor, triumphantly evoking the luxury, license, brutality, and sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the lives, loves, and vices of this motley group of despots, psychopaths and perverts, he paints a portrait of an era of political and social revolution, of the bloody overthrow of a proud, five-hundred-year-old political system and its replacement by a dictatorship which, against all the odds, succeeded more convincingly than oligarchic democracy in governing a vast international landmass.

Author: Matthew Dennison
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250049124

About the Author

MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Princess and Livia, Empress of Rome. As a journalist, he contributes to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Country Life, and The Spectator. He is married and lives in London and North Wales.




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