• 1. Murderous games; 2. Political succession in the late Republic (249–50 BC) Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton; 3. Ambition and withdrawal: the senatorial aristocracy under the emperors Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton; 4. Death in Rome; Bibliography; Indexes.

'… few Roman historians can have put down this book with the comfortable feeling that their views were just as plausible as before … witty, elegant and a sustained pleasure to read.' Michael Crawford, The Times Literary Supplement

• 1. Murderous games; 2. Political succession in the late Republic (249–50 BC) Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton; 3. Ambition and withdrawal: the senatorial aristocracy under the emperors Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton; 4. Death in Rome; Bibliography; Indexes.

'… few Roman historians can have put down this book with the comfortable feeling that their views were just as plausible as before … witty, elegant and a sustained pleasure to read.' Michael Crawford, The Times Literary Supplement

• 1. Murderous games; 2. Political succession in the late Republic (249–50 BC) Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton; 3. Ambition and withdrawal: the senatorial aristocracy under the emperors Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton; 4. Death in Rome; Bibliography; Indexes.

'… few Roman historians can have put down this book with the comfortable feeling that their views were just as plausible as before … witty, elegant and a sustained pleasure to read.' Michael Crawford, The Times Literary Supplement