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Author Everitt, Anthony.

Title Augustus : the life of Rome's first emperor / Anthony Everitt.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2006]
©2006

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B AUGUSTUS, EMPEROR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  B AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 AUGUSTUS    Check Shelf

Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xxxviii, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-361) and index.
Contents Scenes from a provincial childhood -- The great-uncle -- A political master class -- Unfinished business -- A boy with a name -- From victory, defeat -- Killing fields -- Divided world -- Golden age -- Fighting Neptune -- Parthian shots -- East is east and west is west -- The phony war -- Showdown -- A long farewell -- Abdication -- Whom the Gods love -- Exercising power -- The cult of virtue -- Life at court -- Growing the empire -- A family at war -- The unhappy return -- The bitter end -- Into the future.
Summary 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. In this study of power and political genius, biographer Everitt gives an intimate account of his illustrious subject. He takes some of the household names of history--Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra--and turns them into flesh and blood.
Subject Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Emperors -- Rome -- Biography.
ISBN 1400061288
Standard No. 9781400061280
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