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The Year of Five Emperors: Part 1: Pertinax
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ISBN10: 1778831109
ISBN13: 9781778831102
Publisher: Bookside Press
Published: Jul 6 2023
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781778831102
Publisher: Bookside Press
Published: Jul 6 2023
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The vicious Emperor Commodus is dead, after one cruelty too many. How should a successor be chosen?
By election? The Senate chooses the capable bureaucrat Pertinax.
By purchase? The Praetorians like Didius Julianus, or at least his money.
By inheritance? Clodius Albinus is from an ancient family with imperial ties.
By force? A major branch of the army backs the blunt Septimius Severus.
By acclamation? The common people adore the humble Pescennius Niger.
Rival gods, too, contend for the people's loyalties. In a Rome that is tearing itself apart, the household of Tullius Secundus, a Senator of the old school, struggle to find happiness and love.
Ancient Rome boils with sordid power plays, constant intrigue, full moon rituals, and eruptions of bloodshed in Eckert's sprawling historical novel...An entertaining sword-and-politics saga full of engrossing period detail and sharp drama.
-Kirkus Reviews
-The US Review of Books
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