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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome

by Christopher Scarre, Toby A.H. Wilkinson · 1995

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These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors.

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adult
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medium · 240 pages

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