The twelve caesars
Subtitle: the dramatic lives of the emperors of Rome
By: Matthew Dennison
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781250023537
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Emperors; Biography; History
Description: A retelling of the lives and times of the Roman emperors traces how their reigns marked Rome's shift from a republic to an influential empire, offering a sequence of biographies that offers insight into the political and social dynamics of each ruler's time.
Table of contents: title: Julius Caesar: "Too great for mortal man"; title: Augustus: "All clap your hands"; title: Tiberius: "Ever dark and mysterious"; title: Gaius Caligula: "Equally furious against men and against the gods"; title: Claudius: "Remarkable freak of fortune"; title: Nero: "An angler in the lake of darkness"; title: Galba: "Equal to empire had he never been emperor"; title: Otho: "If I was worthy to be Roman emperor..."; title: Vitellius: "A series of carousals and revels"; title: Vespasian: "The fox changes his fur, but not his nature"; title: Titus: "The delight and darling of the human race"; title: Domitian: "But the third?".