Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman...
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Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780349123837 (0349123837)
ASIN: 349123837
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
TITLE: Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar AUTHOR: Tom Holland DATE PUBLISHED: 2015 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-349-12383-7 __________________________________ Dynasty is the early history of the Julio-Claudian line of the Roman emperors retold as a story. This book...
Sometimes I wish I Claudius was true, but then if it was, we wouldn't have nicely detailed books like this.I highly recommend, you already have a general outline of the time because at points Holland jumps around a bit. I liked that, however, because it shows the relationships between different poli...