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512 pages, Paperback
First published September 3, 2015
“He had not exaggerated. He had indeed been an artist, he and his predecessors too. Augustus and Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius, each in his own way had succeeded in fashioning out of his rule of the world a legend that would forever afterwards mark the house of Caesar as something eerie and more than mortal. Painted in blood and gold, its record would never cease to haunt the Roman people as a thing of mingled wonder and horror. If not necessarily divine, then it had at any rate become immortal.”