Allan Mallinson

Who will guard the guards?

Guy de la Bédoyère vividly demonstrates just how dangerously capricious the Roman emperors’ personal troops could be

issue 04 March 2017

  • Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Bodyguard

    Guy de la Bédoyère

    Yale, pp. 344

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