Kill Caesar! : assassination in the early Roman Empire /
Exploring the history of internal security under the first Roman dynasty, this book answers the enduring question: If there were 9,000 men guarding the emperor, why did Rome have the highest rate of assassination of any world empire? Sheldon concludes that the repeated problem of "killing Caesa...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- The Republic
- The Augustan system : fume et specule
- Augustus and the opposition : attempts on the life of the Emperor
- The reign of Tiberius
- The conspiracy that killed Caligula
- Claudius the fool?
- The "mad" Emperor Nero
- The end of the Julio-Claudians
- Conspiracies and conspiracy theories : an empire in blood.