Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubiconhis masterful witty brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republicwith Dynasty a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicons story opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and its a colorful story of rule and ruination running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Hollands expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases thoroughly depraved) EmperorsAugustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius and Nerofeatured along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue murder naked ambition and treachery greed gluttony lust incest pageantry decadencethe tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.