Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

by Peter Stothard

Book Overview

A unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire's first dynasty

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197781322
• ISBN13: 9780197781326
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"