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    <body><![CDATA[Back in 2005 I learned of <em>The Twelve Caesars</em> on Radio 4. It was part of &quot;A Good Read&quot; or some similar program. Anyway, I was intrigued by the sound of this book that has so influenced writers ever since it was published nearly two thousand years ago. I was not disappointed by the book and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1786443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book makes me kind of thankful that the sociopaths who we choose to govern us are relatively harmless men with only strange dreams of imperialism and desires for fame, riches, and adulation.  Sure we have a Vice President who shot a friend in the face and who brazenly admits to authoriz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41173348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is in my Top 10 books. I love it so much, i think i have read it 3 times (no joke). I took this book with me on my travels in Rome and I bored Matt with my constant readings whilst we were visiting all of the historic sites. I have a huge facination with Roman History, so I do appreciate that m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2824029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A scientist friend of mine, Dick Baublitz, was reading this 30-some yrs ago &amp; he told me a bit about it &amp; I was intrigued.  I don't read much ancient history - just Petronius' &quot;Satyricon&quot; &amp; some philosophy by Plato, Epictetus, &amp; Marcus Aurelius - &amp; maybe a few other things I'm forgetting.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37978001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Matthew Bunson in his handy &quot;A Dictionary of the Roman Empire&quot; provides a very reasonable explanation as to why Suetonius' biographies of the first twelve Roman emperors become increasingly prurient and perhaps less accurate after the chapters on Julius Caesar and Augustus. Apparently Suet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21602706">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating book.  Translated by Graves, who wrote <em> I, Claudius</em>, it is, in many ways, a shorter version of those books. Although, Claudius does not come out of this history nearly as well as he does from Graves’ novels.  <br/><br/>You may never have seen Monty Python’s <em>The Piranha B...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17997902">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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