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

by Stephen Dando-Collins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620458792
Publisher:	Trade Paper Press
Publication date:	02/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	273
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

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