Depois de César e António, o terceiro volume desta série de romances históricos sobre o império romano. A reconstituição admirável do drama e da gl...
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Dec 25, 2010
Tom
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A vivid, readable memoir of Augustus. Interesting form Massie chose. The first half being reasonably conventional novelistic memoire of the first years of Octavian from the Ides of March to the defeat of Anthony. Of course, Augustus lived a very long time after that, and going over the details of that would be ... well, not so exciting. Instead, Massie has Augustus write thoughts down for his grandchildren who were slated to be his successor, but who unfortunately didn't make it.
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Nov 20, 2011
David
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An approachable and personable historical fiction that looks at the man and politician. The base history is well researched and 'accurate' but Massie injects the Princeps' as the masterful politician and inheritor of old Julius' mantle. He is the man for the moment, a flawed genius who 'saved' Rome and left the veneer of the Republic over an idiosyncratic style of personal rule that was to last until Diocletian did away with it 250 year later.
Jul 28, 2008
This is a historical novel about the first of the Roman emperors. It has plausible characters, witty anachronisms, and crackerjack action. Massie effectively uses two distinct tones for the first and second parts of the novel. The story works also as a meditation of how a powerful man rationalizes the lousy things he does in politics and family life. If readers like literary evocations of the classical world such as Robert Graves (I, Claudius) or Anthony Burgess (The Kingdom of the Wicked), they
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Feb 26, 2010
Seamus
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I liked this book. The writing sometimes sounded authentic sometimes modern, which was a bit jarring at times but on the whole it's pretty well written. The story is a little hard to follow, it keeps jumping forward in time, and the marriages and inter-marriages make working out who is related to whom and how a pretty tough task. Still, it's a read. Apart from the already mentioned modern-sounding out of place phrase it feels pretty authentic.
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