(63 BC - AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. Hazel tells Augustus that she doesn't know, and no one knows, because the author, Peter Van Houten, never wrote a sequel, or an epilogue, or anything.

Augustus calls Hazel and keeps asking her questions about how the book ends, and what happens after it ends. The book ends in the middle of a sentence, and leaves a lot of cliffhangers. Various portions of the Res Gestae have been found in modern Turkey.

The Res Gestae is especially significant because it gives an insight into the image Augustus portrayed to the Roman people. Res Gestae Divi Augusti ( Deeds of the Divine Augustus) is the funerary inscription of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, giving a first-person record of his life and accomplishments. He is a extremegreedy child obsessed with food and never stops eating. Augustus Gloop is a main character in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (). Īugustus Gloop is a main character in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ().

So thank Jupiter for the inhererent bawdiness of the times: In a scene straight out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Octavian’s army is attacked by yet another enemy, this time with lead balls, ”many with brief, rude messages like ‘Loose Octavius, sit on this”’ and, rather more feebly, ”Lucius is bald.By Random House Publishing Group in New York. The wily and wildly contradictory Augustus - who managed to stay on top of one helluva bloodthirsy heap for an astonishing 40 years - is nearly defeated by the scholarly Everitt’s lumbering, repetitive prose. In a nutshell: It took a lot of skirmishes with various unwashed masses (including Gauls, the regular and long-haired variety) to keep the Roman empire percolating. I must be missing the gene that makes tactical maneuvers comprehensible, for I spent half of Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor in a veritable fog of war.

If only Anthony Everitt’s recounting of Julius Caesar’s nephew Octavian (who became Augustus) lived up to its promise of bringing the man to ”magnificent life.” Dogged life is more like it.

Augustus by anthony everitt