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He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic in to the greatest empire the earth had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years back laid the foundations, for most of Western history to check out. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, hardly any biographers have concentrated on the person himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling writer of Cicero, provides spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject.
Augustus commenced his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies for taking center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power commenced 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 entire truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings.
At a period when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the best emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a huge, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A report of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the main rulers in history.
