It was Cicero's work as a politician that Everitt aims to rehabilitate then. But he, like so many other Roman intellectuals, failed to make real philosophical advances during the history of the Empire unlike the Greeks before and the Christians after him. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. He undoubtedly was important in the history of Western philosophy as a transmitter of Greek philosophy. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. There have been times in history where Cicero was considered a figure of great importance. It seems that Everitt's aim in writing his biography of Cicero is to bring him back from obscurity. Everitt was also the secretary of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt has written at length on European culture and has written several popular books on Roman history, including biographies of Augustus and Cicero. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.From the Hardcover edition.Author Anthony Everitt is presently a visiting professor in visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale.
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. 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. 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. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived.
His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble.
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