Full name: Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Author: Tom Holland Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Historical fiction, Classic, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780345806727 0345806727

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon--his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic--with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.   Dynasty continues Rubicon's 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 it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) Emperors--Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence--the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia. Similar books: Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy Emperors of Rome by David Potter 69 A.D. by Gwyn Morgan Rome by Greg Woolf The Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly History of Rome by Michael Grant The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell The Fall of the Roman Empire by Michael Grant The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire by Eric D. Nelson The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt SPQR by Mary Beard The Romans by Mary T. Boatwright Persian Fire by Tom Holland The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry Madison's Gift by David O. Stewart Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury