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  • ROME'S ENEMIES WITHIN
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    ROME'S ENEMIES WITHIN
    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 ...

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  • THE REIGN OF EMPEROR ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138–161
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    THE REIGN OF EMPEROR ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138–161
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    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 b...

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  • THE REIGN OF EMPEROR ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138–161
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    THE REIGN OF EMPEROR ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138–161
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    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 b...

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  • THE EMPEROR COMMODUS
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    THE EMPEROR COMMODUS
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    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'...

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  • EMPEROR ALEXANDER SEVERUS
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    EMPEROR ALEXANDER SEVERUS
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    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 genera...

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  • REVOLTS AGAINST ROME
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    REVOLTS AGAINST ROME
    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 ...

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  • SEJANUS
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    SEJANUS
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    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 t...

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  • THE EMPEROR COMMODUS
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    THE EMPEROR COMMODUS
    JOHN S. MCHUGH
    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’...

    $279.00

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