Et tu, Brute?
Subtitle: the deaths of the Roman emperors
By: Jason Novak
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393635737
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Pictorial American wit and humor; Death; Caricatures and cartoons; Biography; Emperors
Other titles: Et tu, Brute? :
Description: "A wry cartoonist's bloody romp through Roman history. Being an emperor in ancient Rome was a dangerous business. Most of the nearly 100 emperors from the dawn of the Roman empire to its fall died violently--often the victims of assassination, battle wounds, or gruesome maladies. A sly work of cartoon history, with a touch of Edward Gorey's dark wit, Et Tu, Brute? is an irreverent, illustrated compendium of the deaths of all the Roman emperors"--