Septimius Severus was the unchallenged ruler of the Roman Empire. In every direction he cast his eye across the frontiers in search of new territories he could subdue. But the one challenge that he could never master was controlling his family.His son was nicknamed "Caracalla" for the clothing from his boyhood which he continued to wear. He was formally named "Antoninus" in hopes that he would turn out like the Five Good Emperors of recent times. He preferred to call himself "Alexa...

The vicious Emperor Commodus is dead, after one cruelty too many. How should a successor be chosen?By election? The Senate chooses the capable bureaucrat Pertinax.By purchase? The Praetorians like Didius Julianus, or at least his money.By inheritance? Clodius Albinus is from an ancient family with imperial ties.By force? A major branch of the army backs the blunt Septimius Severus.By acclamation? The common people adore the humble Pescennius Niger.

The vicious Emperor Commodus is dead, after one cruelty too many. How should a successor be chosen?By election? The Senate chooses the capable bureaucrat Pertinax.By purchase? The Praetorians like Didius Julianus, or at least his money.By inheritance? Clodius Albinus is from an ancient family with imperial ties.By force? A major branch of the army backs the blunt Septimius Severus.By acclamation? The common people adore the humble Pescennius Niger.

This is a thoroughly researched, panoramic view of a pivotal year in mid-imperial Roman history. It can still be seen how the old Roman society functioned, but it is beginning to break down. The viewpoint shifts from chapter to chapter to show what is happening not only in the capital, where the Praetorian Guard, the City Legion, and the Senate are vying for control, but also at the frontiers: in the far northwest, the Caledonians are willing to consider joining but only on their own terms...

This book is a comprehensive survey on safety for older adults. It contains contributions by experts from over a dozen disciplines, including physicians, audiologists, optometrists, mental health professionals, lawyers, occupational therapists, and policy makers. This multi-disciplinary approach provides a new and expansive conceptual framework for health care professionals, students, policymakers, and others who care for older adults, and promotes an understanding of the many challenges t...

From the bestselling author of WARRIOR OF ROME comes the first book in a new series set in third century Rome, a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.In a single year six Emperors will lay claim to the Throne of the Caesars…SPRING AD235Dawn on the Rhine. A surprise attack and the brutal murder of the Emperor Alexander and his mother ends the Severan dynasty and shatters four decades of Roman certainty.Military hero Maximinus Thrax i...

'A compelling storyteller, with a striking talent for historical reconstruction' Mary BeardA epic novel of ancient Rome in the tradition of Edward Rutherford and James Michener.Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a...

The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history.Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar’s imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman—or child.As a boy, Nero’s royal h...

Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome.In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike, so the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy. But Decius...

Rome, 83 BC:The Republic is disintegrating.Ravaged by disease, tormented by vice, Lucius Cornelius Sulla has returned from exile determined to rebuild it, even if it means taking battle to the very walls of Rome and purging the city with blood.There will be deaths without number or limit, but amid the chaos, three infinitely ambitious young Romans vie for greatness.The young wolves are Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Crassus and the man the world will one day know b...

The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden’s bestselling EMPEROR series.Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody.Rome’s great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar’s adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar.Uniting with his great rival Mark Antony...

Rome, 68 BC:Caesar has returned to Rome.Having cut his teeth campaigning in the East, his sites are now set on a new battlefield: the Forum Romanum.This war will be waged with rhetoric and seduction, weapons Caesar will wield with cunning and ruthlessness. Cuckolding political enemies is but a tactic in a broader strategy: Caesar knows that the key to Rome lies with its noblewomen. Whether the powerful, vindictive Servilia, whose son Brutus deeply resents his mother...