Despite its brevity, however, Goldsworth, author of Augustus: First Emperor of Rome, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, and many other works on Roman history, does quite a good job. He covers the political ...

Hail, Caesar!, an uncritical popularization like his informal history of the U. S. Civil War (Ordeal by Fire), is written with a slapdash chattiness that often sinks to sophomoric levels.

In 46 BC, Caesar won the civil war and was named dictator of Rome. To secure his position, he needed an heir. With no son of his own, he adopted Augustus.

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