Augustus, Gaius Octavius Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor.(Brief article)(Book review)

Biography | March 22, 2007| | Copyright

Augustus, Gaius Octavius Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor. Anthony Everitt. New York: Random House, 2006. 377 pp. $26.95.

"Everitt, who teaches at Nottingham Trent and City Universities in England, is the author of a previous biography of Cicero, but he is clearly not as steeped in classical studies as his fellow Briton [Adrian] Goldsworthy, and he often seems conflicted between his scholarly and popularizing instincts, to the detriment of both. Nor is his hope 'to make Augustus come ...

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