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  • The Emperor Commodus

    God and Gladiator

    This historical biography goes beyond popular legend to present a nuanced portrait of the first century Roman emperor.Commodus, who ruled over Rome from 177 to 192, is generally remembered as a debaucherous megalomaniac who fought as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture knows him as the patricidal villain in Ridley Scott's film Gladiator. ... Read more

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  • Emperor Alexander Severus

    Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD 222–235

    Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander at the Emperor's feet) and foreign invasion. Yet the ancient sources generally present his ... Read more

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  • Sejanus

    Regent of Rome

    The Praetorian Prefect's "dramatic rise and fall still serves as a morality tale through the centuries, and it is one that McHugh tells well" (Beating Tsundoku).The figure of Sejanus has fascinated from ancient to more modern times. Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius' infamous Praetorian Prefect, is synonymous with overreaching ambition, murder, conspiracy and betrayal. According to the traditional ... Read more

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  • Rome's Enemies Within

    Imperial Conspiracies and Assassinations in the Roman Empire during the First Century AD

    by John S McHugh ...
    Explores the deadly conspiracies against Roman Emperors from Augustus to the 1st century AD, revealing the complex motives and bloody consequences of assassination attempts and betrayals.The greatest danger to Roman emperors was the threat of deadly conspiracies arising among the Senate, the imperial court or even their own families All the emperors that reigned from Augustus to the end of the ... Read more

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  • The Reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, AD 138–161

    The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom the pax Romana enabled the empire to prosper, trade to flourish and culture to thrive. His reign is considered a Golden Age but this was partly ... Read more

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  • Revolts Against Rome

    Rebellions and Mutinies in the First Century AD

    by John S McHugh ...
    Examines first-century Roman military mutinies, exploring soldiers’ loyalty, rebellion causes, and imperial responses.Throughout the first century AD, the emperors of Rome faced various threats to their rule from ambitious or embittered nobles. However, events show the Roman legionaries to be tenaciously loyal to the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The murder of Nero, the last of his dynasty, unleashed ... Read more

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  • Rome, Blood & Power

    Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic 70–27 BC

    "C apture[s] the essence of the struggle within Rome for reform and power and dominance . . . a page turner of a book . . . that offers fresh insight." — FiretrenchFollowing the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability. Yet the problems which had plagued the previous seventy years of the Republic, of political reform being met with violence and bloodshed, ... Read more

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  • The Reign of Emperor Gallienus

    The Apogee of Roman Cavalry

    "An unusual history of an unusual soldier of Rome who rose to Emperor . . . an engaging history of a fascinating subject—Very Highly Recommended." — FiretrenchThis is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry ... Read more

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  • Carthage's Other Wars

    Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    "A very good read . . . and a reminder that the Romans were hardly the only imperialist warmongers of the ancient world." — StrategyPageCarthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and checkered even before her "Punic Wars" against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a ... Read more

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  • Rome, Blood & Politics

    Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic, 133–70 BC

    This in-depth chronicle examines the series of political upheavals that led to division, violence, and civil war in the ancient Roman Republic.The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programs, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the streets of Rome itself. ... Read more

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  • Attila the Hun

    Arch-Enemy of Rome

    by Ian Hughes ...
    A biography of the notorious tribal leader whose empire challenged the Romans.Most know the name Attila the Hun—but few are familiar with the full history behind this historical figure. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next two decades. Attila bullied and manipulated both halves of the Roman Empire, forcing successive emperors to make tribute payments ... Read more

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  • Augustus at War

    The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

    A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome's military commander-in-chief.The words Pax Augusta—or Pax Romana—evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was in action somewhere, either fighting enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for outright conquest; ... Read more

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