Nigel Jones

Foaming with much blood

Death and debauchery are the principal themes of Dynasty, Tom Holland’s lurid history of Augustus and his successors

issue 12 September 2015

  • Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

    Tom Holland

    Little, Brown, pp. 512

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