New Book: Blood Of The Caesars by S Dando Collins

[D B Campbell]

read the book and understand....it just takes longer.

Jeez, Byron -- you sound like you're sitting around for hours, cut off from the world in a tiny, cramped cubicle with only a book for company. (You're not ... are you!?)

[Renius]

I'd like to chime in with pro Dando Collins Vote. Even though I don't doubt any of the criticisms I've read about his books, I still really enjoy them. Eventually I'll read the new one.
Thanks Byron for defending an author I enjoy.

[Robert Vermaat]

"Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later?"

Simple question.
Simple answer: no.

This sounds a bit like a tabloid headline: "Could Julius Caesar have been the brother of the Emperor of China"?

Of course the Roman empire did not fall because Germanicus was murdered.
First of all, the Roman Empire only fell with the conquest of Constantinople, trust silly publishers to not know that.
Second, so many things happened in between, so many factors played a part in the fall of the West, Germanicus' murder would have hardly mattered.

[D B Campbell]

Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar—the grandson of Mark Antony, adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, father of Caligula, and grandfather of Nero—while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later?

Is he perhaps implying that Germanicus would've made a better emperor than Caligula? Undoubtedly true. But better than Claudius? I doubt it.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I didn't think Claudius was all that hot.. :wink:

He only arrived in britain, after the hard part was done..... :roll: