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  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
  • By: Tom Holland
  • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
  • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (90 ratings)

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By: Tom Holland
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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Dynasty tells the story of Rome's first dynasty of emperors, from its establishment by Augustus Caesar in the last decades of the first century BC to its final, florid extinction less than a century later. The line of autocrats known to historians as the 'Julio-Claudians' remains to this day a byword for depravity.

The brilliance of its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes still haunt the public imagination. When people think of imperial Rome, it is the cities of Tiberius and Caligula, of Claudius and Nero that are most likely to come into their minds.

Dynasty Tom Holland provides not only a compelling history of this fascinating family but a portrait of the entire Roman world.

©2015 Tom Holland (P)2015 Hachette Audio
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  • Categories: History

Critic Reviews

"A compelling detective story of the highest order, In the Shadow of the Sword is also a dazzlingly colourful journey into the world of late antiquity. Every bit as thrilling a narrative history as Holland's previous works, [it] is also a profoundly important book." ( Sunday Times on In the Shadow of the Sword)
"Written with flamboyant elegance and energetic intensity, Holland delivers a brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling with a bloodspattered cast of swashbuckling tyrants, nymphomaniacal empresses and visionary prophets.... Unputdownable. " (Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Times, on In the Shadow of the Sword)

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The old saying is true…

…the first generation establishes the business fortune, the second generation builds on it, the third fritters it away…

Excellent rear, in true Holland style where he takes a tale which many have told, and tells it better.

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Great book and well read.

Excellent for history fans and people needing to know the history of the house of Caesar. However, it does favour a smooth narrative over dealing with conflicting sources.

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Great book. Well worth a listen.

if you love roman history Tom Hollands book is a great piece of work regarding the genre. read by a good narrator too

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