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.
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