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‘A masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman Empire’ Sunday Times



‘Holland does not just tell the story of the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. He knits the history of ancient Rome into his narrative – its founding myths, the fall of the republic, the religious superstitions – with a skill so dextrous you don’t notice the stitching. Dynasty is both a formidable effort to compile what we can know about the ancient world and a sensational story’ Observer

‘A witty and skilful storyteller… He recounts with pleasure his racy tales of psychopathic cruelty, incest, paedophilia, matricide, fratricide, assassination and depravity’ William Dalrymple, New Statesman

‘A wonderful, surging narrative… [for] anyone interested in history, politics or human nature – and it has never been better told’ Mail on Sunday

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Author: Holland Tom
Publisher: ABACUS PRESS
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9780349123837
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2016

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus...

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