Augustus : The Life of Rome's First Emperor (CD-Audio)

from Abbyroad909

A great biography of a fascinating leader! I picked this up because I am a huge "I, Claudius" fan. Everitt's descriptions of most of the people involved are almost the exact opposite of Graves' in "I, Claudius", but Everitts prove to be as interesting and compelling. My only complaint is that the...

from undeadgoat

Augustus is a biography of Augustus intended for the casual reader, with little or no acquaintance with Roman history. Not only is the emperor's life fully laid out, with discussions of missing information and conflicting sources, but the historical backgrounds are fully fleshed out. Over the cou...

from dougwood57

Anthony Everitt has followed up his earlier biography of Cicero with this compact one-volume work on the life of Rome's first emperor, who began his life as Gaius Octavius, later added Caesar, and then became Augustus. In the end, he was known simply 'princeps', the first citizen. This bit about ...

from clmerle

A fascinating book. The first I've read about Roman history in a less haphazard fashion, already having seen many a film and documentary, and tv series. It was interesting to see how Augustus kept up a front of traditional values while radically converting Rome into an empire. It is clear that th...

from Narboink

This is a decent biography. It gives a good general lesson in the life of Augustus; including a great deal of material that most readers will have encountered previously in romantic epics and so forth. Indeed, it often seemed as though Mr. Everitt was more enamored of Mark Antony than perhaps he ...