2004, ISBN: 9780760700884

New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 282 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Includes Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Genealo… More...

New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 282 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Includes Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Genealogical Tables; Dates of the Twelve Ceasars; Dates of Subsequent Emperors; and Index. Topics covered include From Republic to Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus; The Julio-Claudian Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula; The Civil Wars: Galba, Otho, and Vitellius; The Flavian Emperors: Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Also includes Conclusion: The Success and Failure of the Caesars. Michael Grant CBE (21 November 1914 - 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history.[1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to devote himself fully to writing. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a popularizer, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works. During World War II, Grant served for a year as an intelligence officer in London after which he was assigned (1940) as the UK's first British Council representative in Turkey. In this capacity he was instrumental in getting his friend, the eminent historian Steven Runciman, his position at Ankara University. This book seeks to provide short biographies of the Twelve Caesars: Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him. Those dozen men were a fabulous series, the theme of countless legends. Every sort of enormous achievement and bizarre fantasy is conjured up by their names. Moreover, although the long roll-call of emperors continued after them into a still far distant future, there is a certain completeness about the twelve. Suetonius himself felt this, since otherwise he could have gone on to write about the three later emperors he had known--or at least about one or two of them, since there were obvious difficulties in the way of describing the current occupant of the throne. One of the purposes of this book is to try to penetrate the fog of picturesque rumor, and estimate how seriously the various stories can be regarded. But this is only one part of a general attempt to discover what sort of men these astonishing Caesars were. They bore the perilous responsibility of governing an empire comparable in its gigantic magnitude and diversity to the United States today. It is a matter of perennial concern to investigate how the potentates who wield such vast might, and the men who advise them, cope with their tasks, or fail to cope with them. The twelve Caesars of ancient Rome (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus & Domitian) form a fabulous series. The themes of countless legends, these men were infamously depicted in Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars as strange at best & hideously villainous at worst. Delving into the personalities of these rulers, classical historian Michael Grant attempts to sort fact from rumor & to determine how each of these men used their unlimited authority., Barnes & Noble Books, 1996, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780760700884

New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 282 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Includes Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Genealo… More...

New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 282 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Includes Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Genealogical Tables; Dates of the Twelve Ceasars; Dates of Subsequent Emperors; and Index. Topics covered include From Republic to Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus; The Julio-Claudian Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula; The Civil Wars: Galba, Otho, and Vitellius; The Flavian Emperors: Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Also includes Conclusion: The Success and Failure of the Caesars. Michael Grant CBE (21 November 1914 - 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history.[1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to devote himself fully to writing. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a popularizer, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works. During World War II, Grant served for a year as an intelligence officer in London after which he was assigned (1940) as the UK's first British Council representative in Turkey. In this capacity he was instrumental in getting his friend, the eminent historian Steven Runciman, his position at Ankara University. This book seeks to provide short biographies of the Twelve Caesars: Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him. Those dozen men were a fabulous series, the theme of countless legends. Every sort of enormous achievement and bizarre fantasy is conjured up by their names. Moreover, although the long roll-call of emperors continued after them into a still far distant future, there is a certain completeness about the twelve. Suetonius himself felt this, since otherwise he could have gone on to write about the three later emperors he had known--or at least about one or two of them, since there were obvious difficulties in the way of describing the current occupant of the throne. One of the purposes of this book is to try to penetrate the fog of picturesque rumor, and estimate how seriously the various stories can be regarded. But this is only one part of a general attempt to discover what sort of men these astonishing Caesars were. They bore the perilous responsibility of governing an empire comparable in its gigantic magnitude and diversity to the United States today. It is a matter of perennial concern to investigate how the potentates who wield such vast might, and the men who advise them, cope with their tasks, or fail to cope with them. The twelve Caesars of ancient Rome (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus & Domitian) form a fabulous series. The themes of countless legends, these men were infamously depicted in Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars as strange at best & hideously villainous at worst. Delving into the personalities of these rulers, classical historian Michael Grant attempts to sort fact from rumor & to determine how each of these men used their unlimited authority., Barnes & Noble Books, 1996, 3<

1975, ISBN: 9780760700884

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Barnes & Noble, inc., 1975. Book. Illus. by Illustrations. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/VG, used hc, 282pp. Three-… More...

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Barnes & Noble, inc., 1975. Book. Illus. by Illustrations. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/VG, used hc, 282pp. Three-quarter navy paper over boards with cream cloth and copper text on spine. Color illustrated dust jacket with rust and black colored text on upper and spine; slight edge wear; no chips or tears. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight and straight.., Barnes & Noble, inc., 1975, 3<

1996, ISBN: 0760700885

[EAN: 9780760700884], Near Fine, [SC: 42.44], [PU: Barnes & Noble Books, New York], HISTORY NOISBN, Jacket, Book club edition. Octavo. 282pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Smal… More...

[EAN: 9780760700884], Near Fine, [SC: 42.44], [PU: Barnes & Noble Books, New York], HISTORY NOISBN, Jacket, Book club edition. Octavo. 282pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Small stains on page edges, near fine in fine dust jacket. Provides short biographies of the Twelve Caesar's, from Julius Caesar to the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him., Books<

1996, ISBN: 9780760700884

Barnes & Noble Books, January 1996. Hardcover. Used - Good/Good., Barnes & Noble Books, 2.5