Palatine An Alternative History of the Caesars

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Peter Stothard, "Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars"
English | ISBN: 0197555284 | 2023 | 336 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire's first dynasty

14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive.
This is a history of ancient Rome's first imperial dynasty―the Julio-Claudians-with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those reviled too often in the past as flatterers and gluttons, audacious slaves and former slaves, lawyers-for-hire, chancer arrivistes, and unhinged party animals.
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