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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
5 stars to Agrippa, 3 stars to patchy the historical record, 4 stars for Powell who does his best putting it all together. Reading this made me was several novels about Agrippa: the outlines suggest exactly the kind of person I find compelling, stunningly ambitious and competent but also clearly defining his own unexpected terms of success. But all we appear to have are very sketchy outlines. Often this book ends up describing Augustus’s movements in exhaustive detail and then saying “Agrippa might have been there, maybe.” This is no fault of Powell’s scholarship! And it’s good to have a record of the limits of what is known and how and why. But a move could do a lot with a bit of poetic license to just fill in the gaps.
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