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69 AD, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and


frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that


they had no qualms about occupying the city of Rome, and of ambitious men who seized power only to lose it,


one after another.


In 69 AD, we have a fresh look at this period, based on two considerations to which insufficient


attention has been paid in the past. First, that we need to unravel  between the conflicting


accounts of Tacitus, Plutarch and Suetonius, our three main sources of information. And second, that the role of


the armies, was distinct from that of their commanders. The result is a remarkably


accurate and insightful narrative history, filled with colorful portraits of the leading participants and new insights


into the nature of the Roman military, 69 AD ranges from the suicide of Nero in June 68 to the triumph of


Vespasian in December 69. In between, three other emperors hold power. We meet Galba, old, tightfisted and


conservative, who was declared emperor in June 68 and assassinated in January 69. Otho, once Nero's boon


companion, who was responsible for murdering Galba, seized power in a coup in Rome in January 69 and, to


everybody's surprise, committed suicide three months later in a vain attempt to end the civil wars. Vitellius, as


indolent as he was extravagant, who was put forward by two ambitious lieutenants, recognized by the senate in


Rome once they heard of Otho's death in April, and cut down by Vespasian's partisans in the last days of


December. And then there is Vespasian, the candidate who looked least likely to succeed, but (according to


Tacitus) was still the first to be improved by becoming emperor.


A strikingly vivid account of ancient Rome, 69 AD is an original and compelling account of one of the best


known but perhaps least understood periods in all Roman history.

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