Palatine
An Alternative History of the Caesars
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 August 2024
- ISBN 9780197781326
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 226x151x18 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English 535
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Short description:
Palatine, the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome, was the heartbeat of Roman imperial power. This book provides a unique and vivid narrative of Rome's first dynasty, as seen through the eyes of one family, the Vitelli, who expertly maneuvered through the Palatine until their luck ran out.
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A unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire's first dynasty
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive.
This is a history of ancient Rome's first imperial dynasty -- the Julio-Claudians -- with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those reviled too often in the past as flatterers and gluttons, audacious 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 forever. 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.
This hugely readable novel-like account completes the picture, a Succession for the Julio-Claudian years. S. gets behind the Tacitean and Suetonian stereotypes and brings the Palace itself to life: a great read.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Characters
PART ONE
1: In the palace dog-house
2: Mr Glutton and Mr Fool
3: Succession
4: Care for what we eat
5: A wolf by its ears
6: Publius among the fishes
7: Between the Emperor and his heir
8: Flattery and fear
9: Words for a palace
PART TWO
10: The fox and the crow
11: Who killed the prince?
12: The only verdict that mattered
13: Tiberius, Tiber and Tibur
14: Hercules the herdsman
15: Care for cucumbers
16: Vitellia's night out
17: Pen and knives
18: The way of the guard captain
19: Water on dust
20: Profits from propinquity
21: Death of the damned
22: Lucius Vitellius and the son of God
23: Goat worship
24: Ill will for the twin
25: Man talks to a Moon
26: Good water, golden meat
27: Torture of an actress
28: Garden ornaments
29: Lucius rules the world
30: Ashes of a swallow
31: Flattery's textbook
32: A bedroom slipper
33: Of unshakable loyalty to his emperor
34: God-given mushrooms
35: Aulus the educator
36: Oedipus and actors
37: Dish of Minerva
38: Blackened tables
39: Food and fire
40: New lamps for old
PART THREE
41: Mr Stingy
42: A good job for a glutton
43: Fill me up!
44: A hard man to flatter
45: Brother behind the lines
46: Wine for the battlefield
47: Shield of Minerva
48: Emperor Vitellius
49: No time for a party
50: A drink to defeat
51: In Augustus's temple
52: Out of the dog house
53: New clothes for old
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
