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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[
The House of Augustus] offers a learned, exciting and convincing demolition of the standard modern view of the ancient Palatine, and of the living arrangements of Rome’s first emperor."
---Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement"
The House of Augustus is a book of outstanding scholarship and independent but well-judged opinions, in which every chapter offers fresh information and insights. It is highly recommended."
---Stuart Lyons, Classics for All"A most splendid book. . . . I am sure that in the future, all writers about Augustus will have to take this book into consideration."
---Andrew Selkirk, Current World Archaeology"A highly engaging journey through the history of Rome and the Palatine, and particularly the spectacular career of Augustus . . . . Few historical detective stories could be as enjoyably informative and absorbing as this one."
---Diana Bentley, Minerva"
[Wiseman] publicly rights the archaeological record. . . . there is no doubt [that The House of Augustus] will challenge
and reshape our understanding of the Palatine for a long time to come.
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---Nandini Pandey, Mnemosyne"[Wiseman] traces brilliantly how, as so often, past scholarly hypotheses slowly crystallized into assumptions that eventually petrified into facts. . . . This is an important book."
---James Corke-Webster, Greece and Rome"Wiseman's enjoyable new view of Augustus is carefully built up from the ancient evidence: it is unorthodox, indeed revolutionary."
---Oswyn Murray, Balliol College Annual Review"This is however a detective story, as much as historical writing, and Wiseman appears a dogged and unrelenting investigator, seeking the truth and examining above all else the contemporary voices."
---Anthony Smart, Classical Journal
