Augustus Cæsar

When Julius Cæsar died, there were two men who could have succeeded him: Antonius and Augustus.

For a while it seemed as though both could rule together, but when Antonius started his affair with Cleopatra, his hold on the reigns of Rome grew weaker and allowed Augustus to take control.

A complex man, Augustus was in turn both a womaniser and a puritan, a politician and a dictator, a soldier and a peace-maker. His reign began with bloodshed, but it ushered in a new world.

In this book, John B. Firth will introduce you to a man of conviction, of strength, of arrogance and tyranny. And you will meet Augustus Cæsar, a man whose thirst for power drove him to become the most powerful man on earth. The man who took Rome from a city to an Empire...

John B. Firth, a scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford, authored several other titles including Augusts Caesar, studied closely vast and numerous original authorities, all of whom, he jokes, ‘were bitter and malevolent partisans’. With the truth thus so distorted by personal agendas and decayed through the annals of time, Firth made it his priority to meticulously research with an impartial eye in order to produce the most historically accurate account. Constantine the Great is wonderful feat of scholarship, and a must-read for any Roman enthusiast.