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The twelve caesars : the dramatic lives of the emperors of Rome / Matthew Dennison.
- Title
- The twelve caesars : the dramatic lives of the emperors of Rome / Matthew Dennison.
- Author
- Dennison, Matthew
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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| Text | Request in advance | DG278 .D46 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 385 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- A retelling of the lives and times of the Roman emperors traces how their reigns marked Rome's shift from a republic to an influential empire, offering a sequence of biographies that offers insight into the political and social dynamics of each ruler's time.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-366) and index
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Julius Caesar: "Too great for mortal man" -- Augustus: "All clap your hands" -- Tiberius: "Ever dark and mysterious" -- Gaius Caligula: "Equally furious against men and against the gods" -- Claudius: "Remarkable freak of fortune" -- Nero: "An angler in the lake of darkness" -- Galba: "Equal to empire had he never been emperor" -- Otho: "If I was worthy to be Roman emperor..." -- Vitellius: "A series of carousals and revels" -- Vespasian: "The fox changes his fur, but not his nature" -- Titus: "The delight and darling of the human race" -- Domitian: "But the third?".
- ISBN
- 9781250023537 (hbk.)
- 125002353X (hbk.)
- 9781250023544 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013011608
- OCLC
- 835951460
- SCSB-11401094
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library