Companions in Toil
Michael Kulikowski: The Praetorian Guard, 4 May 2017
Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard
by Guy de la Bédoyère.
Yale, 336 pp., £25, March 2017,978 0 300 21895 4 Show More
by Guy de la Bédoyère.
Yale, 336 pp., £25, March 2017,
“... from the best of the troops who had followed him. The auction story is impossible to resist and Guy de la Bédoyère duly starts with it. Similarly dramatic scenes pervade his book: whenever the praetorians enter the light of history, drama is unavoidable. The Praetorian Guard was important because of its ... ”