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LINDSAY POWELL is a historical detective He is motivated to tell the stories of the under reported personalities and events of history in the belief that they deserve to be told to complete our understanding of the past A historian and writer Lindsay has a particular passion for the military history of the Roman Empire He scours ancient documents inscriptions coins and museums for stories and archaeological engineering medical and scientific reports to reveal deeper truths He was news editor of Ancient Warfare 2011 2016 and continues to contribute to the magazine He has written for Military Heritage Desperta Ferro and Strategy Tactics magazines as well as Pen and Sword Books Osprey Publishing The History Network and UNRV LINDSAY POWELL is a historical detective He is motivated to tell the stories of the under reported personalities and events of history in the belief that they deserve to be told to complete our understanding of the past A historian and writer Lindsay has a particular passion for the military history of the Roman Empire He scours ancient documents inscriptions coins and museums for stories and archaeological engineering medical and scientific reports to reveal deeper truths He was news editor of Ancient Warfare 2011 2016 and continues to contribute to the magazine He has written for Military Heritage Desperta Ferro and Strategy Tactics magazines as well as Pen and Sword Books Osprey Publishing The History Network and UNRV. Augustus at warplanes com Lindsay is a veteran of the world renowned Ermine Street Guard His appearances include BBC Radio and The History ChannelHe divides his time between Austin Texas and Wokingham England site_link The words Pax Augusta or Pax Romana evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was in action somewhere either fighting enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for outright conquest or suppressing rebellions within the borders Remarkably over the same period Augustus succeeded in nearly doubling the size of the Empire How did this second rate field commander known to become physically ill before and during battle achieve such extraordinary success Did he in fact have a grand strategy Powell reveals Augustus as a brilliant strategist and manager of war As commander in chief he made changes to the political and military institutions to keep the empire together and to hold on to power His genius was to build a loyal team of semi autonomous deputies legati to ensure internal security and to fight his wars for him claiming their achievements as his own Lindsay Powell profiles than 50 of these men and their campaigns Augustus at War The Struggle for the Pax AugustaI have written a full review on the blog I run for teh school classics dept but in essence I liked the material adduced for Augustus as a great Imperator even if often by proxy legatus and was less grabbed by the material on how well Augustus sold the idea of himself as the imperator 1783831847 Un testo che fa cadere il mito della pax augusta con un analisi attenta e puntuale non solo delle vicende belliche ma anche del sistema politico e amministrativo costruito da Ottaviano Molto interessanti anche le appendici consiglio di non trascurarle 1783831847 Lindsay Powell again shows why he has become one of the top biographers of Ancient Roman personalities Thoroughly and deeply researched this book is less of a narrative and of a reference book Each year of Octavian Augustus rule is broken out and the conflict which occurs in each year is detailed Concluding with a thoughtful and insightful assessment the book is only half over The remaining half of the book is dedicated to appendixes including a gem of a resource of all the men involved in Augustus rule biography and end notes This may be overwhelming to someone newer to Roman history but is essential for any hobby Classicist Classicist or general history nerd 1783831847 Gosh this is a heavyweight tome on the life of Augustus tables plates chronology appendixes as well as the text itself But this is immensely readable Academic yes but surprisingly readable I knew little about Augustus apart from what I knew from Shakespeare s Antony Cleopatra but this gives us an insight into the man as an individual and a leader I would certainly be interested in reading Powell s other Roman titles 1783831847
| Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta By Lindsay Powell |
| 1783831847 |
| 9781783831845 |
| English |
| 288 |
| Hardcover |
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