Tom Holland

5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)

• The Twelve Caesars (opens rcmnd.app)

  “Suetonius's work is a collection of biographies of the first 12 Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar through to Domitian. And it really had a crucial sense of shaping our understanding of Imperial Rome as a place of vice…”

  2011-09-13, book, by Suetonius, recommended

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (opens rcmnd.app)

  “But the truth is that it remains incredibly readable. As I said before, it takes Tacitus as its model, who was famous for his waspish style, and a careful balancing and modulating of the sentences so that irony would…”

  2011-09-13, book, by Edward Gibbon, recommended

• The Roman Revolution (opens rcmnd.app)

  “This again is an absolute classic which is completely informed by Tacitus. It has that very mordant take on the way that power works and operates.”

  2011-09-13, book, by Ronald Syme, recommended