Rome And Augustus

The writer Anthony Everett had a style in this book that was obvious, smooth, and to the point, but there is a good amount of history about Rome and Augustus I learned a good amount from this book. I would have to agree with what this review said about the book “Basic is the word I would use to best illustrate it. But that seems to be what the author was going for. Everitt stated that his goal is: ""...to write as if this were the biography of a modern statesman, asking the same questions even if our sources make it difficult to answer them, and trying as far as possible to understand the real man (Everett 5).”" There was an outstanding amount of history in the book, but it was basic like the person in the review said. At the beginning of the

While Octavian’s ruthlessness and the consequential civil wars should make for high tragedy this all comes across more as straightforward. "More than half of the book is devoted to this period, which ends with the deaths of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Then comes the personality switch resulting in the eventual designation of the title Augustus, and the princeps becomes the “founding father of western civilization

“The author has researched through all the ancient texts and composed together everything that has to do with Augustus. Then he has put them mutually chronologically. He has evaluated the fact, fiction, and half truths and presented the most likely truth. Even contemporary conspiracies are evaluated and inexpensive for the most part.” The book is a very popular history book and it brings back a good amount of history to readers. This is a very good book to read, accessible adequate for a informal reader with little or no information known of the