The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story

by T.P. Wiseman

Book Overview

A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine

Caesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace" originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates that Augustus was never an emperor in any meaningful sense of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691180075
• ISBN13: 9780691180076
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.3" x 10.1"