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100 1  Powell, Lindsay,|eauthor. 
245 10 Augustus at War :|bThe Struggle for the Pax Augusta /
       |cLindsay Powell. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bPen & Sword Books,
       |c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    1 online resource (496 pages) 
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520    A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome's 
       military commander-in-chief. The words Pax Augusta -- or 
       Pax Romana -- evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across
       the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a 
       fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the 
       Roman Army was in action somewhere, either fighting 
       enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for 
       outright conquest; or suppressing banditry or rebellions 
       within the borders. Remarkably, over the same period, 
       Augustus succeeded in nearly doubling the size of the 
       Empire. How did this second-rate field commander, known to
       become physically ill before and during battle, achieve 
       such extraordinary success? Did he, in fact, have a grand 
       strategy? Powell reveals Augustus as a brilliant 
       strategist and manager of war. As commander-in-chief 
       (imperator) he made changes to the political and military 
       institutions to keep the empire together, and to hold on 
       to power himself. His genius was to build a team of loyal 
       but semi-autonomous deputies (legati) to ensure internal 
       security and to fight his wars for him, while claiming 
       their achievements as his own. The book profiles more than
       90 of these men, as well as the military units under their
       command, and the campaigns they fought. The book is 
       lavishly illustrated with 23 maps, 42 color plates, 13 
       black-and-white figures and five order of battle 
       schematics. With a foreword by Karl Galinsky, this book 
       breaks new ground in explaining the extraordinary 
       achievement of Caesar Augustus. 
588 0  Publisher metadata. 
600 00 Augustus,|cEmperor of Rome,|d63 B.C.-14 A.D. 
650  7 HISTORY / Military / Ancient.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Rome|xHistory|yAugustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. 
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