Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken, Anthea Bell

Augustus: The Biography

Jochen Bleicken, Anthea Bell

1102 pages first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography classics history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 propa...

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