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...

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 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...

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...

110 BC:The world cowers before its legions, but Rome is about to be engulfed by a vicious power struggle that will threaten its very existence.At its heart are two exceptional men: Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth; and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by poverty and vice.Both are men of extraordinary vision, extreme cunning and ruthless ambition, but b...

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...

THE EXPLOSIVELY GRIPPING, 300,000 COPY BESTSELLING ROMAN EPIC SERIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF GLADIATORBritannia, 45 AD: Vespasian's brother is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods - not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on Midsummer's Day.Vespasian must rescue his brother whilst completing the conquest of the sout...