Augustus : the biography
Bleicken, Jochen, 1926-20052015
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Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterise his rule, Octavian rallied huge financial, military and political backing to eliminate his opponents, end the bloody turmoil that had so long wracked Rome and, finally, take autocratic control of a state devoted to republicanism. He became Augustus - Rome's first Emperor, and the founder of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. In this biography, Jochen Bleicken tells the story of a man who found himself a demi-god in his own lifetime and paints a portrait of one of the most dramatic periods of Roman history.
Main title:
Augustus : the biography / Jochen Bleicken ; translated by Anthea Bell.
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2015.
Collation:
770 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780713994773 (hbk)
Dewey class:
937.07092937.0709920 AUGUB AUG
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
1124658