Palatine: an alternative history of the Caesars

This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those...

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Main Author: Stothard, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Map
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those struggling to survive around them. This is the Roman imperial world seen through the eyes of men and women in a single house on Rome's Palatine Hill. Amid a household of servants and soldiers, self-appointed lawyers and the fabulously extravagant who once were enslaved, it examines the lives of one pair of flatterers and gluttons - namely, a father and son
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 314 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780197675403
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197555286.001.0001

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