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Dark History of the Roman Emperors - From Julius Caesar to the Fall of Rome Hardcover – January 1, 2008

by Michael Kerrigan (Author)
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  1. Language
    English
  2. Publisher
    Amber Books Ltd
  3. Publication date
    January 1, 2008
  4. Dimensions
    11.66 x 8.54 x 1.02 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    190570495X
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1905704958
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amber Books Ltd; First Edition (January 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 190570495X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1905704958
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.66 x 8.54 x 1.02 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

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TJ SCHOENLEIN
5.0 out of 5 stars A Interesting Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012
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I believe this is an updated version or re-published with new book jacket.
You can read the product information for contents & the other reviewer comments.
I'll address the great artwork that has been included here. You'll find some beautiful paintings that have been done over the centuries of Romes famous & infamous . The book is layed out for ease of reading & visual appreciation.
With some of the worlds most acknowledge psychopaths on the throne - it's a wonder Rome achieved the power it did.
You're are going to like this book...
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Damian Dodge
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2013
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Not a bad book...as someone who like to read multiple books on subjects I am already familiar with I found some things I didn't know. Book was short but for the price not bad.
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Phil Geusz
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2012
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Know going in that this is a sensationalist book, if the title wasn't clue enough for you. I chose it because I was seeking wicked-type inspiration for a novel and wasn't so much interested in a serious historical study. I have (many) other books for that. For the most part sensationalism is precisely what you get, set against a bare-bones historical backdrop that was frankly more than I expected. Ratings are highly subjective things-- I got very much what I sought and paid for.
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Brandon Manning
3.0 out of 5 stars 2000 year old rumors and scandals, but a history book????
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2014
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Well the author certainly turned every rumor or circumstantial peace of evidence in history as to a portrayed actual account. Hope you have a strong Stomach when you reach the point of Why you Emperor Tiberius left infants unweined,, him supposedly being a child molester.

This is more of a book.of an account of every accusation ever made against an emperor brought to a literary source.

Caesars supposed affair with King Nicomedes was a slander he bore all his. Life in Rome, Rome's gossip spread through word of mouth graffiti and was even used politically

. The author did not make up these accounts but he certainly took no time to a certain their credibility, nevertheless if a historian recorded it, it's modern dying history book worthy by some opinions.
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Amazonut
5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to the Roman Era and its leaders.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2015
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This is a good cursory treatment of the topic for the novice historian and those looking to get their feet wet on the subject.
Filled with pictures of artifacts and paintings to give life to the anecdotes, it probably would not be the ideal book for
hardcore students/scholars looking to dig into details, arguments, opinions, critiques, etc. on Roman history.
I found this book to be perfect for what I was looking for.
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Kevin Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth owning series
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2019
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Well illustrated and just concise enough for fans of history who don't want to read 600 page biographies or ones with too much information.
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Mr. D. James
4.0 out of 5 stars It’s Gibbon revisited with a Horrible Histories slant that is the reverse of funny
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2015
Kerrigan, Michael. Dark History of the Roman Emperors

What a ghastly crew of robbers, schemers and perverts! Hitler was an angel by comparison. This is a well-illustrated and attractively packaged account of the major Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to the Fall of Rome. It’s Gibbon revisited with a Horrible Histories slant that is the reverse of funny. ‘Never were the stakes higher, the passions fiercer or the politicking more murderous than they were at the imperial court,’ declares Kerrigan. He spares us nothing as thousands of Christians, Jews and Romans are tortured, garotted, raped and mocked for the amusement of the populas and their fiendish masters, the emperors. The term Blood Sports then had an entirely different connotation. The Romans, so it would appear, owed nothing to the Greeks beyond their mythology. Meet Caligula who wants his victims ‘to feel the whole experience of death’so he keeps them alive and suffering. Or the playboy and mother’s boy Nero, legendary for fiddling while Rome burned, who ordered his teacher, Seneca, to commit suicide. Or Commodus, a criminally insane madman who re-ordered the calendar and combed the empire for the most beautiful women for his 300-strong harem. The book’s sordid narrative is punctuated by the most gorgeous artwork, providing a field-day for vulgarians.
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jackalope
1.0 out of 5 stars fantasy history
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2020
I'm sure the Roman Emperors were excessive and extravagant in their tastes but the author makes incredible assertions with absolutely no discussion of references or sources to back them up.

On Elagabalus:
" Only the choicest of delicacies, such a peacock tongues and the combs of cockerels, cruelly cut away from the heads of living fowl, would do for Elagabalus. He ate mullet's guts, camel heels, the heads of tropical parrots and the brains of flamingos..."

Were these stories written by contemporaneous historians, by political rivals, by someone centuries later trying to make an example of Roman immorality? You'll never know and neither does the author.
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Joseph Chua Thian Poh
5.0 out of 5 stars I am glad I got hold of this very good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2017
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The book is very concise..helps to fill in the blanks of my knowledge of Roman emperors...with reference to Augustus dynasty...I am glad I got hold of this very good book....I shall continue to read again and again until I have a thorough understanding of what led to Rome decline and demise...like all empires in history. Thanks. Joseph
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Dennis William Byrnes
4.0 out of 5 stars Roman Emperors....the human side
Reviewed in Australia on September 3, 2014
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This is a good read. It gives details and insights of various Emperors of Rome, the darker side. It is information that fills in what other histories leave out, the human side.
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Jemma Byrne
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2020
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Very interesting and well written
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