From Tom Holland, co-host of the hit podcast THE REST IS HISTORY, a dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
In
Dynasty
, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudians—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Capturing both the brilliant allure of their rule and the blood-steeped shadows cast by their crimes,
travels from the great capital rebuilt in marble to the dank and barbarian forests of Germany.  Populated by a spectacular cast: murderers and metrosexuals, adulterers and Druids, scheming grandmothers and reluctant gladiators, it vividly recreates the world of Rome after Julius Caesar. A tale of rule and ruination,
is the story of a family that transformed and stupefied the western world and that continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.