
Augustus
The Biography
Jochen Bleicken(Autor*in)
Allen Lane (Verlag)
Erschienen am 28. April 2005
Buch
Hardcover
784 Seiten
978-0-7139-9477-3 (ISBN)
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The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young soldier 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.
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Worthy, authoritative, magisterial and impressive The Times Jochen Bleicken's biography of Rome's first emperor is excellent on the young Octavian and his wheeling and dealing, setting one powerful rival up against another and somehow making his way intact through one of the riskiest periods in Roman history Independent Masterful... a breathtaking panorama of Roman politics at a crucial turning point in history Literary ReviewWeitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Penguin Books Ltd
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 162 mm
Dicke: 49 mm
Gewicht
1288 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7139-9477-3 (9780713994773)
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Jochen Bleicken was born in 1926 on the island of Sylt in Germany. He studied History and Classical Philology at the universities of Kiel and Frankfurt from 1948 to 1954 before going on to work as a Professor of History at Hamburg, Frankfurt and Gottingen. In 1978, he was made a member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences. He retired in 1991, but continued to give lectures for years thereafter, finally stopping in 1999. He died in 2005.