Les Belles Lettres whose specialty are the Greco-Latin humanities offer day-at writing this commentaire- 17 Biography / Reports which to name the greatest: Pericles, Alcibiades, Alexander the Great, Themistocles, Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine (Hannibal Carthage and the first Chinese emperors) and Augustus.
Thus, "The True Story of Augustus" is the fruit of the compiler work and essayist Bruno Albin who presents Octavian / Augustus (-63 to 14) through 16 chapters, the Empire of maps and Civil Wars , and a solid bibliography.
All chapters are both a blend of presentation / summary of the author supported by texts of witnesses, politicians, historians of the time:
-on 1 Chap. presents the young Octavius "Under the protection of Caesar" with many passages of Suetonius and Dio Cassius.
-The 4th Chap. "Consul at twenty" where we find the writings of Appian and always Suetonius and Dio Cassius.
-The 9th Chap. "Octave privately" essentially Suetonius and Tacitus, with a passage of Ovid.
-The 10th Chap. "The advent of Augustus" -after victory Actium- is one of the most important chapters since showcases the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio as essential authors.
-The 13th Chap. "Time of poets" present the cultural atmosphere under the "reign" of Augustus with many testimonies of Virgil, Horace and Ovid (to change sources depending on the time and contexts.)
-Notons Also the importance of Plutarch texts in this book.
