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Artikel-Nr:
9780713994773
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
656
Autor:
Jochen Bleicken
Gewicht:
1264 g
Format:
241x166x43 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jochen Bleicken was born in 1926 on the island of Sylt in Germany. He studied History and Classical Philology at the universities of Kiel and Frankfurt from 1948 to 1954 before going on to work as a Professor of History at Hamburg, Frankfurt and Gottingen. In 1978, he was made a member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences. He retired in 1991, but continued to give lectures for years thereafter, finally stopping in 1999. He died in 2005.
In this monumental biography, translated into English for the first time by Anthea Bell, Jochen Bleicken tells the story of a man who found himself a demi-god in his own lifetime and paints a portrait of one of the most dramatic periods of Roman history.
Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. This title tells the story of a man who found himself a demi-god in his lifetime and paints a portrait of the dramatic periods of Roman history.