- Fiction, Women slaves, Rome, fiction, Fiction, historical
The true-life love story of the Emperor Vespasian and the freedwoman Antonia Caenis. Despite a twenty-year hiatus, during which Vespasian married a woman of status and fathered the two future Emperors Titus and Domitian and a daughter, Domitillia, the love of Vespasian and Caenis endured until her death after he became emperor. A good account of the turbulent reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, as well as the Year of Four Emperors.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Lindsey Davis
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- St. Martin Griffin, Century, F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099227427
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