The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire 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 propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallied huge financial, military and political backing to eliminate his opponents, end the bloody turmoil that had so long wracked Rome and, finally, take autocratic control of a state devoted to republicanism. He became Augustus - Rome's first Emperor, and the founder of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. In this monumental biography, translated into English for the first time by Anthea Bell, Jochen Bleicken tells the story of a man who found himself a demi-god in his own lifetime and paints a portrait of one of the most dramatic periods of Roman history.
Diese Festschrift fuer Jochen Bleicken zeichnet sich aus durch die Qualit�t sowie die Unabh�ngigkeit ihrer Beitr�ge und wird somit dem gro�en Althistoriker Bleicken gerecht." Das Historisch-Politische Buch Inhalt: Jean Andreau: Vie financi�re dans les deux moiti�s de l' Empire romain: remarques comparatives - Ernest Badian: Plutarch's Unconfessed Skill. The Biographer as a Critical Historian - Anthony A. Barrett: Damned with Faint Praise: Tacitus' Obituary of Livia - Karl Christ: Geschichtsbild und Zeitgeschichte bei Velleius Paterculus - Jean-Michel David: Le prix de la voix: remarques sur la clause d'exclusion des praecones de la table d'H�racl�e - Jean-Louis Ferrary: La l�gislation romaine dans les livres 21 � 45 de Tite-Live - Emilio Gabba: Riflessione sui Giambi a Nicomede - Wilfried Gawantka: Eine Sammlung antiker Fundmuenzen aus der Provinz Tarragona - Adalberto Giovannini: Un document amphictionique m�connu: La convention financi�re de Drymaia (IG IX,1,226?230) - Erich S. Gruen: The Emperor Tiberius and the Jews - Theodora Hantos: �ber die Entstehung von Herrschaft (am Beispiel der praefecti socium im r�misch-republikanischen Heer) - Fran�ois Hinard: Entre R�publique et Principat. Pouvoir et urbanit� - John Scheid: Les veux pour le salut d'Octavien de 32 av. J.-Chr. (RGDA 9,1).
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