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the opportunist
It was early evening. The sun had just set after the assassination of Pertinex. Rome was at dinner. In the imperial courtyard a body lay without a head. The head of the emperor was a few hundred yards outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodus Roman Emperor, Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Elagabalus Roman Emperor, Emperor Caligula, Jeffrey Bernard, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pertinax, Pertinax Emperor of Rome, Repentinus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian
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pool party
It was not merely an empire. It was the world. The Roman Empire. And yet, one evening it was offered up for sale to the highest bidder. What is more, the man who would be emperor by midnight began dinner … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Mann, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Christopher Plummer, Commodus Roman Emperor, cy twombly, Edward Gibbon, Hyperion the satyr, Josephus Flavius, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcus Aurelius, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Praetorian Guard, Titus and Domitian, Vespasian Emperor
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