376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved.
There was, she argues, less difference than might appear between the ambitious youth who overthrew Anthony and... Read more
List of Abbreviations Chronology Introduction: The Enigma 1. Octavian: Octavian: Heir of an Autocrat 2. Augustus: Political Evolution 3. Techniques of Management and the Feel-Good Factor 4. Opposition and Discontent 5. The Self-presentation of a Monarch 6. Art and Literature 7. Unmasking a God Bibliography
Biography
Barbara Levick is Fellow and Tutor Emeritus, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has published extensively on Roman history, with titles including Tiberius the Politician (Routledge, 1999), Vespasian (Routledge, 1999), Claudius (Routledge, 2001) The Government of the Roman Empire, second edition (Routledge, 2001) and Julia Domna: Syrian Empress (Routledge, 2007).
