The twelve caesars : the dramatic lives of the emperors of Rome
(2013)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
937.07/DENNISON,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250023537 (hbk.), 125002353X (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Julius Caesar: "Too great for mortal man" -- Augustus: "All clap your hands" -- Tiberius: "Ever dark and mysterious" -- Gaius Caligula: "Equally furious against men and against the gods" -- Claudius: "Remarkable freak of fortune" -- Nero: "An angler in the lake of darkness" -- Galba: "Equal to empire had he never been emperor" -- Otho: "If I was worthy to be Roman emperor..." -- Vitellius: "A series of carousals and revels" -- Vespasian: "The fox changes his fur, but not his nature" -- Titus: "The delight and darling of the human race" -- Domitian: "But the third?"