"They shall be left to fall as they are inclined by their own weight"
p. 20
Air disaster over Kansas
p. 22
Dissected bird
p. 23
My life with Caesar
p. 27
The rise of Rome
p. 28
Poor Hannibal of Carthage
p. 30
The historian's prayer to the deified Augustus
p. 33
The death of Augustus
p. 34
Caligula, clairvoyant
p. 36
Caligula on death
p. 38
Claudius adrift
p. 41
Beautiful Nero
p. 43
Roman economics
p. 46
Lives of the later Caesars
p. 48
The fall of the Roman Empire
p. 49
Ode to Rome
p. 53
Goodbye to the city, we have no other
p. 54
Youth and the lie that goes with it
p. 57
Poem for my mother at her age
p. 58
Narcissistic elegy
p. 59
In the end the doorbells stop
p. 60
Old woman
p. 61
The dead in their boats
p. 62
Burial at sea
p. 64
A gull in the water
p. 65
Questions for the drowned at sea
p. 66
Lily
p. 67
About the dead
p. 69
The empire in the air
p. 73
The empire was falling
p. 74
Prayer
p. 75
For the dead : unveiling
p. 76
Final instructions
p. 78
The gladiator
p. 79
Undergrond mausoleum
p. 80
Lemure
p. 83
Who are our barbarians?
p. 85
Apocalyptic prayer
p. 87
I was the last man on earth
p. 88
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