Jan 3, 2010

The Caesars | The Caesars

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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

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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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The Caesars | The Caesars

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