Augustus, Volume 2: The Emperor, ROGER CARATINI

After defeating Caesar's assassins, Octavius - now known as Octavian - began his ascent to power at the age of twenty-three. It was an eventful journey, the main events of which the author recounts with brilliance: the dissolution of the triumvirate that Octavius had formed with Lepidus and Antony, the nuptials of Antioch which sealed Antony's union with Cleopatra, and the terrible Battle of Actium, which drove the lovers of the Nile to suicide and left Octavian - nicknamed Augustus, "the most venerable" - sole master of the Roman Republic. He was then free to reform both institutions and society, while expanding the Empire, which he governed with the title of "Princeps" and whose borders he pushed back to Germania and the banks of the Danube. In this second volume of AUGUSTUS, The Imperator, Roger Caratini retraces the dazzling destiny of the man who reigned for over half a century over a vast empire and restored Rome to the Roman people.