The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus - Couverture souple

Tranquillus, Gaius Suetonius

9781444470895: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus

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ISBN 10 : 1444470892 ISBN 13 : 9781444470895

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

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In this vivid portrait of Rome’s first emperor, Suetonius turns from the chaos of Julius Caesar’s assassination to the astonishing rise of Augustus, the young heir who transformed civil war into imperial rule. Born Octavius and adopted into Caesar’s name, Augustus emerges here as soldier, politician, reformer, family man, strategist, and master of public image. Suetonius records the victories that secured his power, the laws that reshaped Roman society, the honours he accepted, the cruelties he permitted, and the private habits that made him human. The result is neither simple praise nor simple condemnation, but a sharp, intimate biography of a ruler who claimed to restore the Republic while founding an empire. Filled with anecdotes, scandals, omens, speeches, marriages, betrayals, and acts of calculation, Augustus offers a fascinating view of power at the moment Rome changed forever. For readers of ancient history, political biography, and classical literature, this volume provides an essential account of ambition disciplined into authority, and of the man whose long reign gave his name to an age.

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