Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen.
N° de ref.He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. The world that made Augustus and that he himself later remade was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Augustus s 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. 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. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject.
Yet, despite Augustus s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. As Rome s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble.
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