About the Author

Anthony Everitt, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture, and is the author of Cicero and Augustus. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England's first recorded town, founded by the Romans.

Reviews

"Excellent . . . highly recommended . . . a skillfully analyzed and well-researched narrative."
--"Library Journal
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"One gets a clear and compelling sense of Hadrian's times."
--"The New Yorker
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"[A] skillful portrait . . . The author of biographies of Augustus and Cicero, British scholar Everitt now combines academic expertise with lively prose in a satisfying account of the emperor."
--"Publishers Weekly
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"From the Trade Paperback edition."