{"product_id":"avgvstvs-9798993813417","title":"Avgvstvs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Timothy Michael Cerruti\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Virtus Aeterna Press LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Virtus Aeterna Press LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAVGVSTVS is a sweeping historical drama chronicling the rise of Octavian: from the ashes of Julius Caesar's murder to the dawn of the Roman Empire. Written in a heightened classical style, the play blends Shakespearean cadence with the political realism of Livy, Tacitus, and Plutarch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross four acts and fifteen scenes, Octavian navigates a broken Republic: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Senate confrontations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- battlefield councils\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- private reckonings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- impossible alliances\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- the birth of power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- and the moral cost of destiny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver ten years in the making, revised and refined with painstaking historical care, AVGVSTVS follows a young man forced to match ambition with virtue as he contends with Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Lepidus, Agrippa, and Maecenas. What emerges is the portrait of a leader who must choose between the ideals of the Republic and the necessities of rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Rome at its tipping point: its violence, its rhetoric, its personal betrayals, and its fierce struggle for order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who love Roman history, political drama, classical literature, and the timeless conflict between duty and ambition, AVGVSTVS offers a modern epic forged in the spirit of the ancients.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virtus Aeterna Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46860770312343,"sku":"9798993813417","price":2162.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798993813417.webp?v=1769958450","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/avgvstvs-9798993813417","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}