Tom Holland: The Lives of the Caesars

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Join the award-winning star of The Rest is History for a journey back to the Roman empire, where we will get up close and personal with Caesar, Augustus, Caligula, and Nero…

Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history himself. Already a wildly acclaimed bestselling author when his chart-topping podcast The Rest is History made global superstars of Tom and his co-host Dominic Sandbrook, he is equally adept at transporting us through time to the fall of Saigon, the battle of Salamis, and even the age of dinosaurs.

Now he brings us closer than ever to the lives of the first twelve Roman emperors. The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world.

Celebrating Tom’s new translation for Penguin Classics of Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars – one of the most influential works of history ever written – this live In Conversation event with guest interviewer George Osborne will reveal the emperors’ shortfalls, lay bare their sex scandals, and show us their tastes, foibles and eccentricities in unmatched detail.

Don’t miss this chance to journey back to a time and culture at once familiar and utterly alien to our own guided by the greatest public historian at work today.