Blood of the Caesars : How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome

by Dando-Collins, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780470137413
• ISBN10: 047013741X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar-the grandson of Mark Antony, adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, father of Caligula, and grandfather of Nero-while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later? This brilliant investigation of Germanicus Caesar's death and its aftermath is both a compelling history and first-class murder mystery with a plot twist Agatha Christie would envy.

Author Biography

Stephen Dando-Collins is the author of Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome, Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable Fourteenth Legion, Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar, and Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor. He is an Australian-born researcher, editor, and author who has spent the last three decades identifying and studying the individual legions of the Roman army of the late Republic and the empire of the Caesars.

Table of Contents

Atlas	p. vii
Bloodline of the Caesars	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Murder of Germanicus Caesar	p. 5
The Immediate Aftermath	p. 15
The Return to Rome	p. 25
Piso Returns	p. 33
Motives for Murder	p. 37
The Murder Trial Begins	p. 67
Prosecution and Defense	p. 77
Destroying the Family of Germanicus	p. 89
The Downfall of Sejanus	p. 109
The Germanicus Emperor	p. 125
The Murder of Caligula	p. 133
The New Germanicus Emperor	p. 141
The Murder of Claudius	p. 149
The Murder of Britannicus	p. 159
The Claims of Germanicus's Quaestor	p. 165
The Murder of Nero's Mother	p. 171
Death for Burrus and Octavia	p. 185
The Plot to Murder Nero	p. 193
The End of Nero	p. 205
Unmasking Germanicus's Murderers	p. 211
How the Murder Was Carried Out	p. 223
Notes	p. 235
Glossary	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 261
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