Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy,...