Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009C0KOOQ
Publish date: October 17th 2006
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Biography Memoir,
Roman,
Ancient,
European History,
World History
Ancient history is made up of bits of information from dated manuscripts and the plausible conjectures of historians. Reading this book, I would add that the personal biases of history writers fill in the information gaps which are especially large the farther back in time we go. The end result is...
This was definitely an interesting book, for more reasons that the author likely intended. This was the first biography I've read in which the opinions of the author were so unabashedly evident. Julius Caesar is discussed in tones of honor sometimes bordering on worship. Antony is vilified and vi...
Don't really dig Ancient Rome as much as I should but I love how sympathetic Everitt is to his characters and the care he takes in writing about them.
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