Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar - Rilegato

Holland, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0385537840 ISBN 13: 9780385537841

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2015

Riassunto

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.
 
Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) Emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.

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Informazioni sull'autore

TOM HOLLAND is the author of numerous history books, including Rubicon, Persian Fire, and The Histories, a new translation of Herodotus. He wrote and presented Islam: The Untold Story, a documentary commissioned for Channel 4 in Britain based on his book In the Shadow of the Sword. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385537840
• ISBN 13: 9780385537841
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 482
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile