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Antonius, Marcus 83 B.C.?-30 B.C Emperor of Rome Augustus 63 B.C.-14 A.D Emperor of Rome Augustus 63 B.C.-14 A.D Drama Emperor of Rome Augustus 63 B.C.-14 A.D Fiction Emperors Rome Biography Queen of Egypt Cleopatra -30 B.C Queen of Egypt Cleopatra d. 30 B.C Family Fiction Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania Cleopatra b. 40 B.C Fiction Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D Fiction Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C DramaSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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Summary: "Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVEveritt, Anthony.
Summary: He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations for all of Western history to follow. Yet despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTUS EveDray, Stephanie.
Summary: Pledging allegiance to Emperor Augustus, Selene faces uncertainty among the imperial politics and religious persecution of Rome and must decide between her loyalty to the emperor or to Egypt and her birthright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAGraham, Jo
Summary: Set in Ancient Egypt, "Hand of Isis" is the story of Charmian, a handmaiden to Cleopatra and devotee of Isis, and her two sisters. It is a novel of lovers who transcend death, of gods who meddle in mortal affairs, and of women who guide empires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRADray, Stephanie.
Summary: The daughter of Cleopatra, Princess Selene, struggles to survive amidst political and romantic intrigue after her parents are vanquished by Rome and she becomes the object of desire and obsession for the new and ruthless Caesar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRATurtledove, Harry.
Summary: An epic battle pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians--and Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, against Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURGoldsworthy, Adrian Keith
Summary: Tells the story of the heir to the murdered Julius Caesar who, as Rome's first emperor, brought peace and stability to the empire and presided over a new system of government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTUS GOLStrauss, Barry S.
Summary: "The story of one of history's most decisive and yet little known battles, the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, which brought together Antony and Cleopatra on one side and Octavian, soon to be emperor Augustus, on the other, and whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 STRSummary: Mini-series about Octavius and Marc Anthony's struggle to control ancient Rome following Julius Caesar's assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPWilliams, John
Summary: As the spirit of experimentation swirled around him in the 1960s and '70s, John Williams, working in relative obscurity as an English professor, wrote finely crafted novels distinguished by precise form, powerful but restrained prose, and close attention to physical detail and its symbolic import. His three major works Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and the National Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021