The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story
by Peter Wiseman
“The title refers to the archaeological argument, that the excavated site on the Palatine hill in Rome presented to tourists as ‘The House of Augustus’ is nothing of the sort; on the contrary, the evidence suggests that it was one of the grand aristocratic houses that the future Augustus bought up and demolished in 38 BC in order to create a spacious public area centred on a magnificent new temple of Apollo.”
Our interview with classicist and emeritus professor Peter Wiseman is a wonderful argument against the conventional view of Augustus as the first Roman emperor. Read it and make up your own mind.
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