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Book The Life and Times of Augustus Caesar

Download or read book The Life and Times of Augustus Caesar written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a teenager named Octavian learned that he was the heir of Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in Rome, it seemed like a recipe for disaster. Caesar had just been assassinated, and in the chaotic world of Roman politics the inexperienced young man would seem to have no chance against men two and three times his age. But Octavian had a genius for politics. Within a year he emerged as one of three leaders of Rome. Just over a decade later he took total control. Soon afterward, the Roman people gave him a new name, Augustus Caesar. It was the name which would make him immortal. He ushered in a period of peace and prosperity, ending decades of civil conflict that had cost thousands of lives. His reign was also characterized by a flourishing of art and architecture. He was the first ruler of the Roman Empire. He was almost certainly the best.

Book Augustus Caesar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hourly History
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-06-13
  • ISBN : 9781720450832
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Augustus Caesar written by Hourly History and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AugustusHe was the first emperor of one of the greatest empires ever known to man. He commanded unmatched authority in the ancient world and was always one step ahead of his opponents. He had an intellect and a sharp wit that could cut down his foes just as easily as the steel of his sword. The life of Octavian-later known as Augustus-is so rich and full, it would take several volumes to cover all of his exploits. Although he lived and died over 2,000 years ago, this founder of the Roman Empire is as intriguing as ever. Inside you will read about...✓ The Adoptive Son of Julius Caesar ✓ Defeating Mark Antony ✓ The Second Triumvirate ✓ The Suicide Pact ✓ The First Roman Emperor And much more! Learn the riveting history and the inspirational life of the most noble Roman of them all-Augustus.

Book Augustus

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  • Author : Anthony Everitt
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Release : 2007-10-09
  • ISBN : 0812970586
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Augustus written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.

Book Augustus Caesar

Download or read book Augustus Caesar written by Tammy Gagne and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Caesar was RomeÕs first emperor, but exactly how he came to claim that title is a long and exciting story. It begins in Rome in 63 BCE when a baby boy named Gaius Octavius Thurinus is born. During his lifetime he would be known by several other names, but none so celebrated as Augustus. The nephew of Julius Caesar, Augustus inherited his role as leader of Rome. But blood would not be enough to retain the title. He would have to fight for itÑand fight he did. Emerging victorious against all those who tried to usurp his power, Augustus became one of the most powerful men in not just Rome, but the Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General [BISAC] of the world.

Book Augustus Caesar

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  • Author : David Colin Arthur Shotter
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780415319362
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Augustus Caesar written by David Colin Arthur Shotter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Augustus Caesar David Shotter places Augustus firmly in the context of his own times.

Book Augustus

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  • Author : Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Augustus written by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Augustus

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  • Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-28
  • ISBN : 0300210078
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book Augustus written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed historian and author of Caesar presents “a first-rate popular biography” of Rome’s first emperor, written “with a storyteller’s brio” (Washington Post). The story of Augustus’ life is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord whose only claim to power was as the grand-nephew and heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him “a boy who owes everything to a name,” but he soon outmaneuvered a host of more experienced politicians to become the last man standing in 30 BC. Over the next half century, Augustus created a new system of government—the Principate or rule of an emperor—which brought peace and stability to the vast Roman Empire. In this highly anticipated biography, Goldsworthy puts his deep knowledge of ancient sources to full use, recounting the events of Augustus’ long life in greater detail than ever before. Goldsworthy pins down the man behind the myths: a consummate manipulator, propagandist, and showman, both generous and ruthless. Under Augustus’ rule the empire prospered, yet his success was constantly under threat and his life was intensely unpredictable.

Book Caesar Augustus  The History of the Man Behind the Roman Empire

Download or read book Caesar Augustus The History of the Man Behind the Roman Empire written by Peter Wings and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesar Augustus is the single man who had the most influence over the story of our world. Caesar was a strong personality. He's intriguing, intelligent, strategic, smart and ambitious. His life is full of drama, gambles, risks and success. A true leader of men. In this book we will discover the life of Caesar Augustus, his major accomplishments and the man behind the emperor. A truly unique biography.

Book Julius Caesar

Download or read book Julius Caesar written by Luciano Canfora and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid profile, Canfora offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. The result of a comprehensive study of the ancient sources, "Julius Caesar" paints an astonishingly detailed portrait of this complex man and the times in which he lived.

Book Caesar

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  • Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-09-22
  • ISBN : 0300139195
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Caesar written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “captivating biography” of the great Roman general “puts Caesar’s war exploits on full display, along with his literary genius” and more (The New York Times) Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the Julius Caesar’s life, Adrian Goldsworthy not only chronicles his accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult and captive of pirates, and rebel condemned by his own country. Goldsworthy also reveals much about Caesar’s intimate life, as husband and father, and as seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals. This landmark biography examines Caesar in all of these roles and places its subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C. Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate thousands of years later.

Book The Life and Times of Julius Caesar

Download or read book The Life and Times of Julius Caesar written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures in ancient Rome. He was born into a turbulent era, when different factions were trying to control the government. He survived and began a steady rise in importance. He became a very successful military commander who added more than 200,000 square miles to the territories under Rome s control. But his triumphs created powerful enemies in Rome. They wanted to strip him of his power. He defeated those enemies in a civil war that made him even more powerful. He had a famous love relationship with Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. When it seemed that nothing could hold him back, he was assassinated in the Roman Senate. One of his most notable accomplishments still affects people today. He reformed the calendar and established the length of a year at its present 365 days, with a leap year every four years. The month of July is named after him.

Book Augustus

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  • Author : Karl Galinsky
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-07-16
  • ISBN : 0521744423
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Augustus written by Karl Galinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification.

Book Augustus

Download or read book Augustus written by Jochen Bleicken and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder 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 characterize 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 monumental biography, translated into English for the first time by Anthea Bell, 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.

Book Marcus Agrippa

Download or read book Marcus Agrippa written by Lindsay Powell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative biography of the ancient Roman general and loyal deputy to Emperor Augustus by the acclaimed historian and author of Augustus at War. When Gaius Octavius became the first emperor of Rome, Marcus Agrippa was by his side. As the emperor’s loyal deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in establishing the Pax Romana—but he always served knowing that he would never rule in his own name. Why he did so, and never grasped power for himself, has perplexed historians for centuries. In this authoritative biography, historian Lindsay Powell offers a penetrating new assessment of Agrippa’s life and achievements. Following Caesar’s assassination, Agrippa was instrumental in asserting the rights of his friend Gaius Octavius as the dictator’s heir, seeing him crowned Emperor Augustus. Agrippa then established a reputation as a bold admiral, defeating Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, and ending bloody rebellions in the Cimmerian Bosporus, Gaul, Hispania, and Illyricum. Agrippa was also an influential statesman and architect. He established the vital road network that turned Julius Caesar’s conquests into viable provinces, overhauled Rome’s drains and aqueducts, and built the original Pantheon. Marrying Augustus’s daughter, Julia the Elder, Agrippa became co-ruler of the Roman Empire until his death in 12 BC. His bloodline lived on in the imperial family, through Agrippina the Elder, his grandson Caligula, and great-grandson Nero.

Book U  S  History Bites

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  • Author : Solomon Schmidt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-03-09
  • ISBN : 9780692651186
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book U S History Bites written by Solomon Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Bites was specifically written for young children. It includes thirty topics from U.S. history that I think all children should know. To enhancecomprehension, it also includes a glossary of definitions along with review questions for each section. Parents, this book serves as a great read-aloud, but can also be enjoyed by independent readers in the earlier grades. Each section is short enough to read as a bedtime story to help introduce children to foundational United Stateshistory. I really hope you like it - Solomon

Book The seven kings of Rome

Download or read book The seven kings of Rome written by Livy and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Julius Caesar

Download or read book Julius Caesar written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little over 2000 years ago a man named Julius Caesar changed the world. Even if you had never heard of him his lasting legacy has no doubt had an impact on your life. No doubt, even the very calendar that you use is based upon the system he created, with the month of July bearing his name. So who was this man that singlehandedly changed the course of history? Inside you will read about... ✓ The Underpinnings of a Republic ✓ The Real Struggle Begins ✓ When in Rome ✓ The Ides of March This book follows the life and legacy of the man whose life stood as a footnote between Republic and Empire. The man who has inspired playwrights, governments, and the very days of the week, the life of Julius Caesar is an incredible journey to behold.