Reinhold Meyer. Marcus Agrippa: A Biography

L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1965. — 213 p. — (Studia Historica 16).If Augustus was the 'architect of the Roman Entire', Marcus Agrippa was his superintendent of construction. In the history of the foundation of the Roman Empire the figure of Augustus is dominant. About him move various personalities, interesting not only in themselves, but also because they help to throw light upon the elusive character of the leading personality. Of those who believed in the monarchy because Augusttis was the monarch the most important are Agrippa and Maecenas, both men of extraordinary capabilities. Yet, while the name of Maecenas, the dulce praesidium of the great poets of the Augustan Age, has become proverbial for literary patronage, the important contributions of Agrippa to the new political and social order which rose out of the chaos of the civil wars of the last century of the Republic and with which the name of Augustus is associated have rarely received the attention which they justly merit.