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...
TITLE: Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom AUTHOR: Tom Holland DATE PUBLISHED: 2009 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0349119724 _______________________ From the blurb: Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unl...
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...
S.P.Q.R. is Mary Beard's look at, not how Rome fell, which many others have taken a stab at, but at how it rose. She covers Rome's "first millenium," ending in 212 AD, when the Emperor Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire. The title takes its name from the La...
I recently read The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox, which makes only a passing mention of the Battle at Thermopylae, Battle of Salamis and the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, King of Persia. So I decided to fill in the gap with Persian Fire by Tom Holland.The author provides a well written narrati...
”Rather than gesture his men onward, Gaius Julius Caesar instead gazed into the turbid waters of the Rubicon, and said nothing. And his mind moved upon silence.The Romans had a word for such a momentDiscrimen, they called it--an instant of perilous and excruciating tension, when the achievements of ...
The title of this book would lead a reader (this reader, anyway) to believe the focus to be the Achaemenid Empire and it's leading men, Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, leading up to and through the clash between Persia and Greece. That assertion is an error of scope, as Holland looks not only at the rise...
Breezy and brisk, Tom Holland tells the story of the early Roman Republic and the counterintuitive yet inevitable transition to a monarchy in a style that is very easy to read. The Roman Republic was founded upon an abhorrence of kings, making the presumption that Rome was destined to be ruled by em...
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