Dynasty : The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Hardcover)

from JBD1

Tom Holland's Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Doubleday) is a chronicle of the doings of the Roman emperors so salacious it would take hardly anything extra to make an HBO series out of it. Holland focuses on the personal lives and vices of the five Caesars from Augustus to Ner...

from pierthinker

Rome was a republic for its first 750 years. The switch to imperial rule took about 100 years, starting with Julius Caesar as consul in 59BCE through to the death of Nero in 68CE. This transition was driven by a single extended family, the Julio-Claudians, who supplied the first emperors of Rome ...

from starkravingmad

Seemingly fact based account of the first five emperors. Extremely well researched. Historical personalities brought back almost as big as life

from la2bkk

A fantastic, comprehensive and well researched overview of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. At over 400 pages, the author presents a thorough yet easy reading account of emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and finally Nero. Mr. Holland is clearly well-versed in this period of Roman history...

from robeik

The Rome Imperium: What Julius Caesar instigated, Augustus (and Agrippa) built, Tiberius remotely controlled, Caligula played in, Claudius buttressed and Nero fiddled and fired. Tom Holland does not attempt to retell history - there are plenty of other books that do that (even though that facts a...