Dynasty : the rise and fall of the house of Caesar /
by Holland, Tom.
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BookPublisher: London : Little, Brown, 2015Description: xxvi, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781408703373 (hbk.) :; 1408703378 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 937.07 HOLSubject(s): Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D | History | HistorySummary: In the sequel to 'Rubicon', Tom Holland gives a dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty. The book 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. 'Dynasty' is the portrait of a family that transformed and stupefied Rome.
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| 936.101 PRY Britain B.C.: life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans | 937.06 BAK Ancient Rome: the rise and fall of an empire | 937.06 JON Terry Jones' barbarians | 937.07 HOL Dynasty : the rise and fall of the house of Caesar / | 938 LAN The classical world: an epic history of Greece and Rome | 939.78 GRI The Ark of the Covenant | 940.099 CON The great survivors: how monarchy made it into the twenty-first century |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the sequel to 'Rubicon', Tom Holland gives a dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty. The book 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. 'Dynasty' is the portrait of a family that transformed and stupefied Rome.
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