The twelve caesars

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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.

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.

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Other Editions

• The twelve caesars: the dramatic lives of the emperors of RomeSt. Martin's Press2013-01-01
• Twelve CaesarsAtlantic2012-05-01
• Twelve CaesarsSt. Martin's Press2013-01-01
• The Twelve CaesarsPaperbackSt. Martin's Griffin2014-08-19