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Augustus : the biography
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Augustus. English
Title
Augustus : the biography / Jochen Bleicken ; translated by Anthea Bell.
ISBN
9780713994773
0713994770
9780140294828
0140294821
9780241003909
Publication
London : Allen Lane, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©1998
©2015
Physical Description
770 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Notes
Originally published in German by Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin, 1998.
Translated from the German.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 14, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-742) and index.
Contents
1 The Ides of March, p.1
2 The Dictator's Heir, p.33
3 Cicero and Octavian against Antony, p.72
4 The Fall of the Old Order, p.100
5 Rome under the Despotism of the Generals, p.148
The Generals in Contention for Sole Rule, p.204
7 Establishing the Monarchy as a Principate, p.259
8 The Principate as Idea and Reality, p.326
9 The Government of the Empire LO Rome, Italy and the Roman Empire, p344
11 The New Leadership Class, p.422
12 Self-presentation of the Monarchy: the Romans' Understanding of Their Time, p.454
13 The Army of Augustus, p.483
14 Military Expansion after 16 BC, p.504
15 The Struggle for the Succession and the Last Years, p.557
16 Epilogue, p.602
Notes, p.621
Chronology, p.717
Family Trees, p.724
Literature on the Augustan Period, p. 731
Acknowledgements, p.743
Index, p.745.
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