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Author : Meyer Reinhold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Marcus Agrippa written by Meyer Reinhold and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473853818
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Marcus Agrippa written by Lindsay Powell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative biography of the ancient Roman general and loyal deputy to Emperor Augustus by the acclaimed historian and author of Augustus at War. When Gaius Octavius became the first emperor of Rome, Marcus Agrippa was by his side. As the emperor’s loyal deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in establishing the Pax Romana—but he always served knowing that he would never rule in his own name. Why he did so, and never grasped power for himself, has perplexed historians for centuries. In this authoritative biography, historian Lindsay Powell offers a penetrating new assessment of Agrippa’s life and achievements. Following Caesar’s assassination, Agrippa was instrumental in asserting the rights of his friend Gaius Octavius as the dictator’s heir, seeing him crowned Emperor Augustus. Agrippa then established a reputation as a bold admiral, defeating Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, and ending bloody rebellions in the Cimmerian Bosporus, Gaul, Hispania, and Illyricum. Agrippa was also an influential statesman and architect. He established the vital road network that turned Julius Caesar’s conquests into viable provinces, overhauled Rome’s drains and aqueducts, and built the original Pantheon. Marrying Augustus’s daughter, Julia the Elder, Agrippa became co-ruler of the Roman Empire until his death in 12 BC. His bloodline lived on in the imperial family, through Agrippina the Elder, his grandson Caligula, and great-grandson Nero.
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Author : Meyer REINHOLD
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Marcus Agrippa. A Biography, Etc. [A Thesis. With a Portrait of Marcus Agrippa.]. written by Meyer REINHOLD and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meyer Reinhold
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Marcus Agrippa, a Biography written by Meyer Reinhold and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : in60Learning
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781095411094
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa written by in60Learning and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-21 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smarter in sixty minutes.Get smarter in just 60 minutes with in60Learning. Concise and elegantly written non-fiction books and audiobooks help you learn the core subject matter in 20% of the time that it takes to read a typical book. Life is short, so explore a multitude of fascinating historical, biographical, scientific, political, and financial topics in only an hour each.Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was one of the greatest Romans who ever lived. A man of constant honor, he worked side by side with Augustus and was responsible for the marble masterpieces of architecture ancient Rome is known for today. He was a consul, general, architect, and statesman, and lived his life according to a strict code of conduct. If not for his early death, the people of Rome were expecting him to be their next emperor. Explore his life, regal legacy, and the incredible impact one person can have on the course of a nation's history.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812970586
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.
Author : Jochen Bleicken
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241003903
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by Jochen Bleicken and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473826926
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Germanicus written by Lindsay Powell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The story of a Roman Emperor that might have been” (Fighting Times). Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the possibility of a return to a more open republic. This, the first modern biography of Germanicus, is in parts a growing-up story, a history of war, a tale of political intrigue, and a murder mystery. In this highly readable, fast paced account, historical detective Lindsay Powell details Germanicus’s campaigns and battles in Illyricum and Germania; tracks him on his epic tour of the Eastern Mediterranean to Armenia and down the Nile; evaluates the possible causes of his death; and reports on the cruel fate his wife, Agrippina, and their children suffered at the hands of Praetorian Guard commander, and Tiberius’s infamous deputy, Aelius Sejanus.
Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210078
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed historian and author of Caesar presents “a first-rate popular biography” of Rome’s first emperor, written “with a storyteller’s brio” (Washington Post). The story of Augustus’ life is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord whose only claim to power was as the grand-nephew and heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him “a boy who owes everything to a name,” but he soon outmaneuvered a host of more experienced politicians to become the last man standing in 30 BC. Over the next half century, Augustus created a new system of government—the Principate or rule of an emperor—which brought peace and stability to the vast Roman Empire. In this highly anticipated biography, Goldsworthy puts his deep knowledge of ancient sources to full use, recounting the events of Augustus’ long life in greater detail than ever before. Goldsworthy pins down the man behind the myths: a consummate manipulator, propagandist, and showman, both generous and ruthless. Under Augustus’ rule the empire prospered, yet his success was constantly under threat and his life was intensely unpredictable.
Author : George Philip Baker
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by George Philip Baker and published by Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another in a series of superb biographies of ancient leaders, Baker tackles the life and times of Gaius Octavian Augustus, first emperor of Rome and founder of a Roman state that endured for centuries.
Author : Jean-Michel Roddaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Marcus Agrippa written by Jean-Michel Roddaz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473890055
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Augustus at War written by Lindsay Powell and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome’s military commander-in-chief. The words Pax Augusta—or Pax Romana—evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was in action somewhere, either fighting enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for outright conquest; or suppressing banditry or rebellions within the borders. Remarkably, over the same period, Augustus succeeded in nearly doubling the size of the Empire. How did this second-rate field commander, known to become physically ill before and during battle, achieve such extraordinary success? Did he, in fact, have a grand strategy? Powell reveals Augustus as a brilliant strategist and manager of war. As commander-in-chief (imperator) he made changes to the political and military institutions to keep the empire together, and to hold on to power himself. His genius was to build a team of loyal but semi-autonomous deputies (legati) to ensure internal security and to fight his wars for him, while claiming their achievements as his own. The book profiles more than 90 of these men, as well as the military units under their command, and the campaigns they fought. The book is lavishly illustrated with 23 maps, 42 color plates, 13 black-and-white figures and five order of battle schematics. With a foreword by Karl Galinsky, this book breaks new ground in explaining the extraordinary achievement of Caesar Augustus.
Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848849044
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Eager for Glory written by Lindsay Powell and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome’s empire” (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier). Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome’s most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his remarkable story, achievements, and legacy. Eager for Glory brings this heroic figure back to life for a modern audience. Drusus was a stepson of Augustus through his marriage to Livia. As a military commander he led daring campaigns by sea and land that pushed the northern frontiers of Rome’s empire to the Elbe River. He oversaw one of the largest developments of military infrastructure of the age. He married Marc Antony’s daughter, Antonia, and fathered Germanicus, Rome’s most popular general, and the future emperor Claudius. He was grandfather of Caligula. He died when he was only twenty-nine and was revered in death. Drawing on ancient texts, evidence from inscriptions and coins, the latest findings in archaeology, as well as astronomy and medical science, Lindsay Powell has produced a long overdue and definitive account of this great Roman.
Author : Agnes Streibert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Life of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa written by Agnes Streibert and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561310115
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Roman Mornings written by James Lees-Milne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces.
Author : Norman Gelb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442210672
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Herod the Great written by Norman Gelb and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused of slaughtering children in Bethlehem when informed that a new king of the Jews had been born there. Among the victims of the murderous paranoia that ultimately drove him to the brink of insanity were his three oldest sons and the wife he loved most. But there was a crucial aspect to Herod’s character that has been largely ignored over the centuries. Norman Gelb explores how Herod transformed his formerly strive-ridden kingdom into a modernizing, economically thriving, orderly state of international significance and repute within the sprawling Roman Empire. This reassessment of Herod as ruler of Judaea introduces a striking contrast between a ruler’s infamy and his extraordinary laudable achievements. As this account shows, despite his horrific failings and ultimate mental unbalance, Herod was a fascinatingly complex, dynamic, and largely constructive statesman, a figure of great public accomplishment and one of the most underrated personalities of ancient times. History buffs and those interested in popular ancient history can are introduced to this ruthless tyrant and his victims.
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521744423
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by Karl Galinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification.
