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Augustus - Image and Substance (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,496
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Augustus - Image and Substance (Paperback): Barbara Levick

Augustus - Image and Substance (Paperback)

Barbara Levick

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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 Cleopatra and the admired Emperor of later years. However seemingly benevolent his autocracy and substantial his achievements, Augustus overriding purpose was always to keep himself and his dynasty in power. Similar techniques were practised against surviving and fresh opponents, but with increasing skill and duplicity, and in the end the exhausted members of the political classes were content to accept their new ruler. This book charts the stages of Augustus rise, the evolution of his power and his methods of sustaining it, and finally the ways in which he used artists and literary men to glorify his image for his own time and times to come.

This fascinating story of the realities of power in ancient Rome has inescapable contemporary resonance and will appeal equally to students of the Ancient World and to the general reader.

General

Imprint: Longman
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2010
First published: 2009
Authors: Barbara Levick
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 978-0-582-89421-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 0-582-89421-2
Barcode: 9780582894211

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