The Caesars (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Allan Massie
- First Published: 1983
- Time of Work: 87 to 96
- Setting: Rome and the Roman Empire
- Principal Characters: Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Tiberius, Claudius, Vespasian
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Politics, Rulers, Politicians, Greek or Roman times, Biography, Rome
- Locales: Roman Empire, Rome, ancient
Form and Content
In The Caesars, Allan Massie presents a history of Rome in the first century b.c. and the first century a.d. through a chronologically arranged account of the lives of the rulers of the era. He begins with a chapter devoted to a brief history of the Roman Republic up to its uneasy state in the first century b.c. At that time, it was becoming clear that the long-standing republican city-state government was no longer able to manage the empire that Rome had acquired and was continuing to expand. As the structure of the Republic changed, the need for a...
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