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mods: Palatine an alternative history of the Caesars Stothard, Peter creator author. text bibliography biography Electronic books. History enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xvii, 314 pages) : illustrations, map "The Palatine Hill in Rome is the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive. This is a Roman history of the time of the Caesars - Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero - with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those reviled too often in the past as flatterers and gluttons, uppity slaves and former slaves, lawyers-for-hire, chancer arrivistes and unhinged party animals. Palatine uncovers the lives of the Vitellii, perhaps Rome's least admired imperial clan, of Publius, an old-fashioned soldier snared in the politics of the new age, of Lucius, an exceptionally skilled and sycophantic courtier, and of Aulus a genial sluggard whose prowess at the table carries him all the way to the throne before collapsing his family's reputation for ever. Few now remember them. Yet in their creeping ascent to the very summit of the imperial hierarchy lie neglected truths about a lasting legacy of Rome"--Publisher's description. In the palace doghouse -- Mr Glutton and Mr Fool -- Succession -- Care for what we eat -- A wolf by its ears -- Publius among the fishes -- Between the emperor and his heir -- Flattery and feat -- Words for a palace -- The fox and the crow -- Who killed the prince? -- The only verdict that mattered -- Tiberius, Tiber and Tibur -- Hercules the herdsman -- Care for cucumbers -- Vitellia's night out -- Pen and knives -- The way of the guard captain -- Water on dust -- Profits from propinquity -- Death of the damned -- Lucius Vitellius and the son of god -- Goat worship -- Ill will for the twin -- Man talks to a moon -- Good water, golden meant -- Torture of an actress -- Garden ornaments -- Lucius rules the world -- Ashes of a swallow -- …