Tom Holland's history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty — from Augustus to Nero — applying the same narrative technique as Rubicon to the early Empire.
The Julio-Claudians as a family saga: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero as members of a dysfunctional family exercising absolute power. Holland's technique of weaving ancient sources (Tacitus, Suetonius) into narrative while making their unreliability part of the story. The transition from Republic to Empire as a continuous narrative thread.
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