![]() Livia coated some of them with a poisonous ointment, leaving a few untouched. Augustus liked to pick a fig or two in the evening. In the middle stood a fig tree, heavy with ripe fruit, which Livia had planted years ago. That afternoon, while Augustus was taking a siesta and the house was quiet in the summer heat, Livia went to the peristyle, a large cloister around an open-air garden. Rather than upset all their plans, well here you read the rest for yourself: Then to everyone’s surprise, he began to recover. After neatly arranging the succession with his wife and advisers, an ailing Augustus prepared for death. So I picked it up.Įveritt opens his book with an eyebrow-raising account of Augustus’ final days. After all, Everitt’s biography of Cicero was widely praised, and his Augustus is a handsome and plausible looking volume with 19 five-star ratings and 16 four-stars on Amazon. AUGUSTUS: THE LIFE OF ROME’S FIRST EMPERORĪfter Adrian Goldsworthy’s outstanding biography of Julius Caesar, the chronologically minded reader will almost inevitably next turn to Anthony Everitt’s Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor. ![]()
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