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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mark Antony: Add a description of this character.
- Julius Caesar
- Livia
- Cleopatra
- Octavian
- Gaius Octavius
- Sextus Pompeius
- Octavius
- Agrippa
- Velleius Paterculus
- Julian
- Tiberius
- Gaius
- Lucius
- Horace
- Drusus
- Maecenas
- Fulvia
- Philippus
- Actium
- Marcellus
- Virgil
- Cicero
- Rhodes
- Ito
- Pompey
- Antonia
- Clemens
- Pansa
- Cornelia
- Hirtius
- Aeneas
- Alexander
- Atia
- Marcus
- Gnaeus
- Decimus Brutus
- Romulus
- Vedius
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Italy
- Cisalpine Gaul
- Egypt
- Gaul
- Republic
- Spain
- Sicily
- Greece
- Ise
- Alexandria
- Africa
- Armenia
- B.c.
- Philippi
- Planasia
- Syria
- Macedonia
- Brundisium
- Asia Minor
- Athens
- Tarentum
- Pannonia
- Jupiter
- Actium
- Apollonia
- Velitrae
- Germany
- Caesarion
- Europe
- Mutina
- Middle East
- Turkey
- Parthia
- Neptune
- Beneventum
- Munda
- Illyricum
- Via Egnatia
- Ambracian Gulf
- Messana
- Naples
- Misenum
- Arretium
- Latium
- Julia Augusta
- Samos
- Campania
- Salvidienus
- Crete
- Germania
- Sardinia
- France
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Table of Contents edit
Preface
Chronology
Maps
Family Tree
Introduction
I.) Scenes from a Provincial Childhood
II.) The Great-Uncle
III.) A Political Master Class
IV.) Unfinished Business
V.) A Boy with a Name
VI.) From Victory, Defeat
VII.) Killing Fields
VIII.) Divided World
IX.) Golden Age
X.) Fighting Neptune
XI.) Parthian Shots
XII.) East Is East and West Is West
XIII.) The Phony War
XIV.) Showdown
XV.) A Long Farewell
XVI.) Abdication
XVII.) Whom the Gods Love
XVIII.) Exercising Power
XIX.) The Cult of Virtue
XX.) Life at Court
XXI.) Growing the Empire
XXII.) A Family at War
XXIII.) The Unhappy Return
XXIV.) The Bitter End
Into The Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: DG279.E94 2006
- Dewey: 937.07092
Subjects edit
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
- Books › History › Ancient › Rome
- Books › History › World
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical
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