Nua!
Tyrant
Iggulden, Conn2025
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The boy Nero lives. His mother Agrippina has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and heir of his own, but Agrippina sees no obstacles to her ambition. Rome is a path through a marsh, lit by torches. Those who walk it are always one step from disaster - and the road itself is treacherous, slippery with blood.Claudius may have the world at his feet, but he has Agrippina in his bed.On the wedding day of Emperor Claudius to Agrippina, a senator lies dying in his own home. Yesterday, this senator was betrothed to Octavia, Claudius's daughter. Now blood gushes from his slit wrists. Agrippina's elevation to empress changes so many things. Claudius is convinced to adopt her thirteen-year-old son Nero, naming him his new heir. And those angered by his wife's presumption? They face dashed hopes, endure terrible accusations, or suffer a merciless death. Yet Nero - still a boy - is vulnerable. Tutored by Seneca, he vies with his brother and fellow heir Britannicus for their father's favour. He learns to fight. He learns to love. So what if his mother wants him to marry his sister-cousin Octavia? Rome has been scandalised before. But those who have survived Agrippina, and the families of those who didn't, have long memories and short knives.
Príomhtheideal:
Tyrant / Conn Iggulden.
Údar:
Iggulden, Conn, author
Inphrionta:
London : Penguin Michael Joseph, 2025.
Leathanaigh in ord:
420 pages : illustration (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Teideal sraithe:
Nero trilogy ; 2Neronian series ; book II
ISBN:
9780241587355 (pbk)
Rangúchán Dewey:
823.92Adult fictionFAFF/IGGAdult FictionFiction
I dteanga:
English
Réimse:
BRN:
3556820