Holland's masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman empire is, at its heart, a political analysis ... the story he tells strides onwards across the landscape of grief and horror.
Record details
ISBN:9780349123837
Physical Description:print xxvii, 512 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher:London :Abacus,2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. Padrone -- Children of the wolf -- Back to the future -- The exhaustion of cruelty -- Part II. Cosa nostra -- The last Roman -- Let them hate me -- Io saturnalia! -- What an artist.
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