Palatine
''Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly''
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy...
''Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly''
Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy...
