This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperi

This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperi

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