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OZ: Behind These Walls: The Journal of Augustus Hill

6 reviews
Augustus Hill

HarperEntertainment, 2003

One of the best books I have read
With this book you enter the mind of Augustus Hill, a wheel chair bound inmate who is also the narrator. It clearly depicts life in a prison. OZ: Behind These Walls: Journal of Augustus Hill lets you become part of an experimental lab inside Oswald State Correctional Facility known as Emerald City. It is an accurate description of what goes on behind jail bars from rape to sex to murder and ...

Augustus (Roman Imperial Biographies) (Roman Imperial Biographies)

7 reviews
Pat Southern

Routledge, 2001

Best Augustus biography in English?
Don't waste your time on Anthony Everett's pop bio of Augustus, unless you're a complete neophyte to Roman history. Southern's bio makes the Everett book superfluous. Southern is comprehensive, judicious, and readable. She's up front about issues with the ancient sources where she needs to be, and thrashes out lesser issues in the endnotes. And while her wit isn't so broad as Everett's, she ...

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World)

Cambridge University Press, 2005

The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC--AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. At a time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring theme is the role that he played in influencing their direction. Written by distinguished specialists from the U.S. and Europe, this Companion's sixteen essays explore the multi-faceted character ...

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

44 reviews
Anthony Everitt

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

Enjoyable biography
Great biography on Augustus! Well written and the average reader (like me!) is in not talked down to by the author and the author - though obviously a highly intelligent and well-versed man on the subject matter, does not flaunt it but makes the read enjoyable and understandable. After watching HBO's Rome series, it was very enjoyable to have the fact sorted out from the fiction as well as to ...

Augustus Caesar's World

11 reviews

Beautiful Feet Bks, 1996

Not just for kids!
One of the great bonuses of parenting is that you get to introduce books to your own kids that wowed you when you were a kid yourself. Sometimes your children love the books as much as you did; sometimes they don't. But in either case, you get to revisit with old friends and see how much you and they have changed and retained over the years. Some of my best book friends when I was a kid were ...

The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus

4 reviews
R. M. Ogilvie

W. W. Norton & Company, 1970

Old Standard Text on Roman Religion
Ogilvie's brief text on this subject has been the definitive text on Roman religion for decades. Using extensive primary sources (all in translation)as examples, he demonstrates his thorough understanding of how the Romans worshipped, as well as how they thought about their religion during the Age of Augustus (covering the period from roughly 80 BCE and 60 CE). Chapters include The Gods, ...

Augustus: A Novel

15 reviews
John Edward Williams

Vintage, 2004

Ranks with "I Claudius" and "Memoirs of Hadrian"
I first heard about this extraordinary novel of ancient Rome during one of the regular Wednesday afternoon "Dirda On Books" discussions conducted on the Washington Post website. I began reading the book on a long air flight to Finland and became entirely engrossed. It is easy to understand why the book won the National Book Award in 1973--it is superbly written. The novel follows Octavius ...

The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)

4 reviews
Paul Zanker

University of Michigan Press, 1990

A novel treat: scholarship that's fun to read!
Zanker offers a fascinating reconstruction of Octavian Augustus' agenda for consolidating his position as leader of the Roman world. He does this by careful analysis of the buildings, statues, coins and other physical objects made during the rule of Rome's first emperor. Zanker understands well the impact of visual communication and uses it insightfully. He doesn't simply catalog artifacts, he ...

The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 (My Name is America)

10 reviews
Kathryn Lasky

Scholastic Inc., 2000

Cheers for Augustus!
First of all, the entire "Dear America/My Name is America" series is based on historical journals from a fictional child. To critisize this book because Augustus did not exsist is unfounded. For the past three years, I have read this book aloud to my students to accompany our Lewis & Clark unit. Every class I have read Augustus to, love it! My students have never walked away confused about Lewis ...

Augustus And His Smile

3 reviews
Catherine Rayner

Good Books, 2006

Henry and his smile...
I found it to be one of the finest books I have ever read and not just in the Children's books category either! Needless to say, I went out the next day and bought a copy for our personal library. Brilliantly imaginative and extremely well-illustrated, it was simply wonderful! In addition, the message is important for all of us to learn now more than ever and starting children out with this ...

Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
Sir Henry Bashford

Aegypan, 2006

It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction; when every newspaper is daily reporting scenes of violence, divorce, and arson; when quite young girls smoke cigarettes and even, I am ...

Hezbollah: A Short History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

10 reviews
Augustus Richard Norton

Princeton University Press, 2007

best balance is criticism for all
no one is innocent and no one is as evil as the other side's propaganda machine says. As one who happened to be in South Lebanon at the time the fighting started in 2006, I can say that Norton's description most closely mirrors my experience. You will benefit greatly by picking up this easy to follow gem. If you want one book to help you understand what's happening now in the Shi'a ...

The Age of Augustus (Blackwell Ancient Lives)

2 reviews
Werner Eck

Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Highly Readable, Highly Informative
In this book, Werner Eck tells the story of Augustus's life and rise to power. He demonstrates that the consolidation of Augustus's power took the entirety of his life to complete. Augustus is presented as a political genius whose rise was enabled by the military genius of others. Eck's narration is not a whitewash; he emphasizes the brutality that attended Augustus's ascent. Werner uses ...

The Life and Times of Augustus Rapp

1 review
Augustus Rapp

D. Meyer Magic Books, 1991

RAPP!!!!!
OMG ANTHONY RAPP IS TEH HOTTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIS MUST BE HIS GRANDPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR HIS HALF SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Family Crucible

24 reviews
Augustus Y. Napier, Carl Whitaker

Harper Paperbacks, 1988

Looking at the family as a whole, not the sum of parts
I first read this gem many years ago, long before I became a therapist myself. What an eye opener! Even reading the first Chapter (it's all of 11 pages) is enough to get you thinking in a fresh way about family problems. It certainly worked that way for me. The book really is about Carl Whitaker, M.D. Augustus Napier was his understudy. Whitaker worked within the idea of family-as-a-system ...

Romanization in the Time of Augustus

1 review
Ramsay MacMullen

Yale University Press, 2008

It's architecture baby!
Ramsay MacMullen's recent book is a copiously documented work which aside from contemporary sources, uses scholarly literature in German, French, Italian and Spanish. It examines the "Romanization" of the Empire in the age of Augustus and it concentrates on the East, Africa, Spain and Gaul. The evidence of romanization is largely architectural and so we read accounts of the diffusion of ...

Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History ...
Ron Mellor

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

The 45-year reign of Caesar Augustus (31 BCE to 14 CE) marked the creation of the Roman Empire, which would survive in the West for another five centuries. Unlike the rulers who came before him? Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Marc Antony?Augustus maintained nearly absolute power as he established the ideology and institutions of the Pax Romana , which gave the citizens of Rome two centuries of peace and social stability. This collection of primary ...

Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus

3 reviews
Augustus, P. A. Brunt, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1969

Brunt's edition of the Res Gestae meets students' needs
Although others have produced excellent editions of the Monumentum Ancyranum or Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Brunt's text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti is by far and away the most useful for the advanced undergraduate history student with no Latin background, or Latin students with an interest in epigraphy and the history of one of the greatest propagandists ever. Brunt's text is clear, ...

Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students, Second Edition

8 reviews
Mason Hammond, Anne Amory

Harvard University Press, 1967

Take and read...
Actually, this book doesn't go that far ahead in history. The selections in this text are largely of the Roman Republic, i.e., the pre-imperial times (hence the '...to Augustus' part in the title). It does not start in Trojan times, however -- the idea of Aeneas is more a nod to historical idea that Aeneas was a founding personality for Rome (not always resting easily with the other founders, ...

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