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Continuing the epic story begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor returns to tell the story of the continued rise of the city of Rome, the epicenter of the most powerful empire of the ancient world. Telling the story via the descendents of a single bloodline through time, Empire traces the glorious, turbulent, and often scandalous history of the capitol from the heyday of the Augustus, founder of the empire in 14 A.D., to the height of its glory in territorial extent and cultural achievement, under Hadrian in 138 A.D. Over the course of these decades, four generations of the Pinarius family witness the continual growth and evolution of the city, itself the main character of the novel. Saylor brings to life the most discussed period of the empire, including the most famous, frequently infamous, notorious emperors who dominated the era, including Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian. These episodes are intimate stories of men and women in crisis, but they also shed light on the most famous people and events of imperial Rome.