Augustus (Massie novel)
First edition | |
| Author | Allan Massie |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Bodley Head |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-340-41224-4 |
| Preceded by | One Night in Winter |
| Followed by | 101 Great Scots |
Augustus is a 1986 historical novel by Scottish writer Allan Massie, the first of a highly regarded series of novels about the movers and makers of Imperial Rome. Massie begins with Augustus, the successor to Julius Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire for forty one years and oversaw the beginnings of an extended peace, the Pax Romana.