Imperial Exits

by Martin Rowson and Julius Cicatrix

Complete with humorous illustrations a study of the unusual deaths of the Roman emperors features Maximin Daia, who battered his head against a wall until his eyes fell out; Augustus who ate a fig... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312146248
• ISBN13: 9780312146245
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The 1-2 sentences describing deaths + full-page representations = very funny! The rest is infuriatin

The rest is as confusing as anything I've ever read and Cicada-tits is shameless about it. You need a very specific knowledge of the times to not hate the guy for not using footnotes for: -the parlance of the times -where places were geographically -who groups of people were with where they lived *Just as importantly: He should have put a family-tree style lineage after the table of contents, just a page or two, and made the chronology less than impossible to follow. *Rowson, the know-it-all (from reading some of his other works), could have simply scribbled rough maps which would have added tremendously to the readability.