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Dynasty : the rise and fall of the House of Caesar / by Tom Holland.

by Holland, Tom.

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Little, Brown, 2015.

Caesar, Julius.

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41.

Claudius, Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D.

Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.

Emperors -- Rome.

Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

9781408703373 (hc.)

1408703378 (hc.)

9781408703380 (pbk.)

1408703386 (pbk.)

xxvi, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Padrone -- Children of the wolf -- Back to the future -- The exhaustion of cruelty -- Part II. Cosa nostra -- The last Roman -- Let them hate me -- Io saturnalia! -- What an artist.

"Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new master called himself: 'The Divinely Favoured One'. The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has never faded. No other family can compare for sheer unsettling fascination with its gallery of leading characters. Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter recluse, notorious for his perversions; Caligula, the master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot across the sea; Agrippina, the mother of Nero, manoeuvering to bring to power the son who would end up having her murdered; Nero himself, racing in the Olympics, marrying a eunuch, and building a pleasure palace over the fire-gutted centre of his capital. Now, in the sequel to his 2004 book 'Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic,' Tom Holland gives a dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty. Dynasty traces the full astonishing story of its rule of the world: both the brilliance of its allure, and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes. Ranging from the great capital rebuilt in marble by Augustus to the dank and barbarian-haunted forests of Germany, it is populated by a spectacular cast: murderers and metrosexuals, adulterers and druids, scheming grandmothers and reluctant gladiators. The portrait of a family that transformed and stupefied Rome."--Provided by publisher.

"The follow-up to Rubicon picks up with the murder of Julius Caesar and vividly depicts the intrigue, murder, ambition and treachery of Emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero,"--NoveList.

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