The twelve Caesars
By: Matthew Dennison
Publisher: Atlantic; Atlantic Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781848876859; 9780857897800
Subjects: Emperors; Biography; History
Description: One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned; another earned the nickname 'sphincter artist'. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide - and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the 'twelve Caesars' - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. Under their rule, from 49 BC to AD 96, Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire, whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years.
Notes: Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.