Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

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A stunning account of Rome from Tiberius to Claudius, Caligula and Nero for readers of Tom Holland and Mary Beard

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES

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 Roman history with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those reviled too often in the past as flatterers and gluttons, uppity 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 for ever. 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.

Praise for Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private . . . Stothard tells this story superbly - Sunday Times
This is a story you think you know, told through the eyes of people you don't . . . Not so much an alternative history as an alternative epic, farce and satire rolled into one. Palatine is an absorbing saga of battles and banquets, as densely populated and richly depicted as Game of Thrones - The Times
Profound scholarship written with the verve and expertise of an accomplished novelist . . . Wonderful, evocative stuff - Daily Telegraph
Stothard tells the familiar story in a very original way . . . This hugely readable novel-like account [is] a Succession for the Julio-Claudian years - CLASSICS FOR ALL