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Perfect for ages 7-10."Young men, pay heed to an old man, whom old men harkened when he was still young." - AugustusIn Charles River Editors' Background for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and happenings within an easy, engaging, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook could keep your kid's attention completely to the finish.The importance of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (or as he was known from labor and birth, Gaius Octavius "Octavian" Thurinus) to the course of Western background is hard to overstate. His life, his go up to electric power, his political, cultural, and military achievements, all laid the foundations for the creation associated with an empire which would undergo for nearly five generations, and whose traditions, laws, architecture, and art continue to influence much of Europe and the planet today.Octavian was the first true Roman Emperor, and the first man since the Etruscan Tarquins, five generations earlier, to establish an effective hereditary ruling dynasty in what have been a happy Republic for over half of a millennium. He was a canny strategist, a fantastic orator, an excellent writer, a nice patron of the arts, and a keen promoter of public works, but most importantly he was a get good at politician. Octavian's great-uncle (and adoptive dad) Julius Caesar was a great standard, his rival, Draw Antony, a great soldier, but as a politician, Octavian outmatched all of them.Certainly, like all men, Octavian acquired his problems. Like some of the most successful politicians, he could connive, plot, and prevaricate with the best of them, and he made full use of the psychological draw that his later beloved great-uncle acquired above the legions during his go up to electric power. His justice was also famously heavy-handed, and he had not been known for his mercy towards those he defeated in struggle or marginalized political opponents. Yet despite all this, he still stands in bronze on Rome's Via dei Fori Imperiali even today, combined with the desires of Caesar, Hadrian, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, and he is forever immortalized in every Western calendars as the patron of the month of August, which was focused on him when he was deified, pursuing his loss of life, as Divus Augustus.Like his adoptive dad before him, Octavian is one of those figures whom it is difficult to learn just what to make of, because he appears, even at a distance, to be bigger than life. Yet the amount of personal correspondence and contemporary writings penned by Octavian himself, as well as his friends and affiliates (and competitors), is in a way that, when we assess it all along, a picture of the person behind the bronze statue commences to emerge - the person who found Rome a city of bricks, but kept her behind a city of marble.Background for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Caesar Augustus provides an entertaining look at the life and legacy of Rome's first emperor.
