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The sons of Caesar : Imperial Rome's first dynasty / Philip Matyszak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matyszak, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emperors--Rome--Biography.
- Emperors.
- Rome--History--Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
- Rome.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2006.
- Summary:
- This engaging new study illuminates one of the most colorful dynasties in history, from Caesar's rise to power in the first century EC to Nero's death in AD 68. At it's center are the lives of six men--"Julius Caesar, August as, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--"who mastered Rome and then changed it from a democracy to a personal possession. Set against a background of foreign wars and domestic intrigue, the story of Rome's greatest dynasty is also the story of the birth of an imperial system that shaped the Europe of today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500251282
- OCLC:
- 62796342
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