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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. It s a colorful story of rule and ruination, from the rise of Augustus 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."
About the Author:
Tom Holland gained the top degree at Cambridge before earning his PhD at Oxford. He is the author of the novels "The Bone Hunter, Slave of My Thirst", and "Lord of the Dead", and several nonfiction history books, including "Rubicon, Persian Fire, " and "The Histories", a new translation of Herodotus. He wrote and presented "Islam: The Untold Story", a documentary commissioned for Channel 4 in Britain based on "In the Shadow of the Sword". He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
"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. It s a colorful story of rule and ruination, from the rise of Augustus 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."
About the Author:
Tom Holland gained the top degree at Cambridge before earning his PhD at Oxford. He is the author of the novels "The Bone Hunter, Slave of My Thirst", and "Lord of the Dead", and several nonfiction history books, including "Rubicon, Persian Fire, " and "The Histories", a new translation of Herodotus. He wrote and presented "Islam: The Untold Story", a documentary commissioned for Channel 4 in Britain based on "In the Shadow of the Sword". He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.