The bronze head of Augustus with glass and alabaster eyes; from Meroë, Sudan, ca. 27–25 BC. Photo: British Museum
Below is a link to an essay on a novel from 1972 by John Williams about and called Augustus. It's an interesting piece and sounds like an interesting novel written in the epistolatory style principally from the perspective of people around Augustus. The book is just being republished by the New York Review of Books imprint.
Perhaps we should look as this or another modern take on Rome for one of our sessions.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/aug/14/hail-augustus-who-was-he/
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