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Emperors don't die in bed

Author: Fik Meijer
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Very few of the Roman emperors died a natural death. The insane Caligula was murdered after leaving the theatre; Caracalla while he was relieving himself. Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times and Ortho was dragged into the Tiber with a flesh-hook. However great an emperor's power, danger was ever present." "This book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44 BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476,
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Genre/Form: Biography
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fik Meijer
ISBN: 0415312019 9780415312011 0415312027 9780415312028
OCLC Number: 53253233
Language Note: Translated from the Dutch.
Description: viii, 183 p. : ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. The Julio-Claudian emperors --
2. The year of the four emperors --
3. The Flavian emperors --
4. The Antonine emperors --
5. The African and Syrian emperors --
6. The soldier emperors --
7. Diocletian and the tetrarchy --
8. Constantine and the struggle for power --
9. The dynasty of Constantine --
10. The late fourth century --
11. The divided empire --
12. The end of antiquity.
Other Titles: Keizers sterven niet in bed.
Responsibility: Fik Meijer ; translated by S.J. Leinbach.
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A lively general introduction to the Roman Emperors, from Julius Ceasar (44BC) to Romulus Augustulus (476 AD), the last western Emperor. Focusses on their unusual deaths, and what their final days  Read more...

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'Fik Meijer's book is very handy as a repetition course for everybody interested in the history and fate of the Roman emperors.' -- Arctos

 
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