A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Published: July 2000
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781841191737
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Political leaders & leadership; Social history; Ancient Rome; History: World
First sentence: The omnipotent paterfamilias, enforcing chastity on his sons with the threat of death if they did not obey; the formidably pure matron, like the mother of the Gracchi; the censorious Cato the Elder, who held that a husband had the right to kill a man found in his wife's bed; all were part of Roman legend at the beginning of our age, the time of Augustus, but their image had faded.