Rome's Enemies Within: Imperial Conspiracies and Assassinations in the Roman Empire during the First Century AD

Explores the deadly conspiracies against Roman Emperors from Augustus to the 1st century AD, revealing the complex motives and bloody consequences of assassination attempts and betrayals.

The greatest danger to Roman emperors was the threat of deadly conspiracies arising among the Senate, the imperial court or even their own families All the emperors that reigned from Augustus to the end of the first century AD faced such efforts to overthrow or assassinate them. John McHugh uncovers these c...