Augustus everitt7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Now at least we have a book that brings this momentous figure to life. Much has been written about his achievements, but his inner world has remained remarkably obsure. Yet Augustus himself remains a shadowy figure. His consolidation and expansion of the Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, literally, for all of Western history to come. As Romes first emperor, he transformed the unruly Roman Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. ![]() Imperator Caesar Augustus was one of the greatest figures of one of mankinds greatest ages. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. From the author of the national best-seller Cicero, comes a sweeping, panoramic biography of the man who fashioned the greatest empire in the history of the world. ![]()
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