Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire by Annelise Freisenbruch

Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire

Annelise Freisenbruch

384 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative tense slow-paced
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In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the h...

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