The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

Anthony Everitt

Random House]

The First Emperor

Biographies & Memoirs

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

Augustus

Random House, Inc.

Ex-library book, stamps and stickers present. Interior pages clean and crisp, part of clear dust jacket on the back on the bottom is torn off and shows signs of wear.

Cicero

RB Large Print

From the author of the national best-seller Cicero, comes a sweeping, panoramic biography of the man who fashioned the greatest empire in the history of the world. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. Imperator Caesar Augustus was one of the greatest figures of one of mankind's greatest ages. As Rome's first emperor, he transformed the unruly Roman Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of the Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, literally, for all of Western history to come. Yet Augustus himself remains a shadowy figure. Much has been written about his achievements, but his inner world has remained remarkably obsure. Now at least we have a book that brings this momentous figure to life. As he did in his best-selling Cicero, Anthony Everitt places this smart, shrewd political figure in the context of the world that made him (and that he himself made), describing with colorful detail one of the most remarkable periods in human history-complete with shipwrecks, human sacrifice, hairbreadth escapes, lots of sex, battles and ambushes, family scandals, and above all, the relentless pursuit of absolute power. The stage is crowded with larger-than-life personalities such as Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Tiberius, and many more. History doesn't get any more vivid than this.

Augustus : The Life of Romes First Emperor

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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome?s 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 Augustus?s 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. 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. The world that made Augustus?and that he himself later remade?was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. 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. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustusis a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history. From the Hardcover edition.

Historical

Baker & Taylor, CATS

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