Palatine : an alternative history of the Caesars /
"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 ne...
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Flattery's textbook
- A bedroom slipper
- Of unshakable loyalty to his emperor
- God-given mushrooms
- Aulus the educator
- Oedipus and actors
- Dish of Minerva
- Blackened tables
- Food and fire
- Tutor in vice
- Mr Stingy
- A good job for a glutton
- Fill me up!
- A hard man to flatter
- Brother behind the lines
- Wine for the battlefield
- The shield of Minerva
- Emperor Vitellius
- No time for a party
- A drink to defeat
- In Augustus's temple
- Out of the doghouse
- New courts for old.