AUGUSTUS The Life of Rome's First Emperor
by Everitt, Anthony
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0812970586
- ISBN 13
- 9780812970586
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Random House Trade Paperbacks. Near Fine. 2006. Softcover. 0812970586 . Xxiii, 378pp. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Romes first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustuss accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustuss rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustusand that he himself later remadewas driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of historyCaesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatrawhom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 432 pages .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30506
- Title
- AUGUSTUS The Life of Rome's First Emperor
- Author
- Everitt, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812970586
- ISBN 13
- 9780812970586
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- 0812970586, Augustus Caesar, Roman History, Roman Empire, Political Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Political Science;
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