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Palatine

- An Alternative History of the Caesars
Af: Peter Stothard Engelsk Paperback

Palatine

- An Alternative History of the Caesars
Af: Peter Stothard Engelsk Paperback
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''Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly''
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES

14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive.

This is a Roman history with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those reviled too often in the past as flatterers and gluttons, uppity slaves and former slaves, lawyers-for-hire, chancer arrivistes and unhinged party animals. Palatine uncovers the lives of the Vitellii, perhaps Rome''s least admired imperial clan, of Publius, an old-fashioned soldier snared in the politics of the new age, of Lucius, an exceptionally skilled and sycophantic courtier, and of Aulus a genial sluggard whose prowess at the table carries him all the way to the throne before collapsing his family''s reputation for ever. Few now remember them. Yet in their creeping ascent to the very summit of the imperial hierarchy lie neglected truths about a lasting legacy of Rome.

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''Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly''
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES

14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive.

This is a Roman history with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those reviled too often in the past as flatterers and gluttons, uppity slaves and former slaves, lawyers-for-hire, chancer arrivistes and unhinged party animals. Palatine uncovers the lives of the Vitellii, perhaps Rome''s least admired imperial clan, of Publius, an old-fashioned soldier snared in the politics of the new age, of Lucius, an exceptionally skilled and sycophantic courtier, and of Aulus a genial sluggard whose prowess at the table carries him all the way to the throne before collapsing his family''s reputation for ever. Few now remember them. Yet in their creeping ascent to the very summit of the imperial hierarchy lie neglected truths about a lasting legacy of Rome.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781474621014
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1474621015
Kategori: Ancient World
Udg. Dato: 11 apr 2024
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 11 apr 2024
Forfatter(e): Peter Stothard
Forfatter(e) Peter Stothard

Kategori Ancient World

ISBN-13 9781474621014

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 198mm

Højde 129mm

Udg. Dato 11 apr 2024

Oplagsdato 11 apr 2024

Forlag Orion Publishing Co

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