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

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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Everitt, Anthony
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2006], ©2006.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Emperors > Rome > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xxxviii, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.