Anthony Everitt
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"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....
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 540 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world?from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city?s political and cultural golden age, to its decline into the ancient equivalent of a modern-day university town."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
415 p. ;
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"The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of his day despised him, and it's their recollections that...