Peter Stothard: Palatine: An Alternative History Of [2023] paperback ZARTC Also included are the evocative

Also included are the evocative lyrics of romantic longing and lost illusions for which Ferry is rightly revered: 'Slave to Love'

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Like Caesar he was honoured by having a month of the year named after him

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Peter Stothard: Palatine: An Alternative History Of [2023] paperback ZARTC Also included are the evocative14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive. This is a Roman history with a cast of new men and newly dominant women, those