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A short, sharp and entertaining survey of the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present day
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- THE TWELVE CAESARS Matthew Dennison
- MATTHEW DENNISON
A short, sharp and entertaining survey of the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present day.Finished copies available Extent: 288pp Acquiring editor: Toby Mundy Rights: WorldSTEPHEN TROMBLEY is a New York-based editor and film-maker. He collaborated with Alan Bullock on the second edition of The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1988) and was editor of The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1999). His books include The Execution Protocol; Sir Frederick Treves: The Extraordinary Edwardian; The Right to Reproduce; and ‘All That Summer She Was Mad’: Virginia Woolf and her Doctors.
THE TWELVE CAESARS Matthew Dennison One of them was a military genius; another prostituted his sisters and made his horse a senator; yet another fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were asassinated, two committed suicide, and five were elevated to the status of gods. Thanks to the Roman historian Suetonius, they have come down to posterity as the 'twelve Caesars’ – Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. Under their rule, from 49 BC to AD 96, Rome was transformed from an oligarchic republic to a monarchic dictatorship, whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years thereafter. The Twelve Caesars recreates the lives, loves and vices of this motley group of despots, psychopaths and perverts, and discovers an era of political and social revolution, of the bloody overthrow of a proud, 500-year-old political system and its replacement by a dictatorship which, against all the odds, succeeded in governing a vast international landmass. The story of Rome’s rejection of group rule for autocracy, with its accompanying ruler-personality cults and focus on a single individual, dramatically foreshadows the stories of later dictators and even today’s tabloid-charged obsession with celebrity. From the reviews of The Twelve Caesars: ‘Unputdownable... These histories from 2,000 years ago are riveting in their insight, their black humour and their sheer readability.’ Daily Mail, Book of the Week ‘Gossipy and insightful, making for an enjoyable introduction to this power-hungry crowd.’ Financial Times ‘Dennison’s approach combines thoughtful reflection and analysis with gossipy irreverence in a bewitching cocktail... hugely entertaining.’ Daily Express ‘Extremely strange, yet in many ways like us today, the first Caesars are presented in all their perversity and brutality in a vivid and gossipy portrait.’ Sunday Times MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter’ (2007), and a biography of the Roman empress Livia (2010). As a journalist, he has been published in every national weekday broadsheet newspaper in the UK. He read English Language & Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. Finished copies available Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> Harvard University Press katalogi -> 2013 rights list non-fiction adshade, Marina dollars and sex: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love katalogi -> Blake friedmann literary, tv and Film Agency katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 2.19 Mb. Share with your friends:
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