London Review of Books on Mythryl: “‘Whether or not half the stories that Suetonius tells about Caligula…”

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‘Whether or not half the stories that Suetonius tells about Caligula are true, their common thread is the sadistic pleasure he took in rubbing everyone’s noses in the power he had over them.’ @moonjets.bsky.social on a new translation of ‘The Lives of the Caesars’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukThomas Jones · Lords of the World: Keeping Up with the CaesarsAs Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...

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