Background
Everitt was born on January 31, 1940, in England, United Kingdom, the son of Michael Anthony Hamill and Simone Dolores Cathérine Everitt.
Bath Rd, Cheltenham GL53 7LD, United Kingdom
Everitt was educated at Cheltenham College.
Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RH, United Kingdom
Everitt studied at Corpus Christi College.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Everitt got a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge.
(He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As...)
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus – and that he himself later remade – was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history – Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra – whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.
https://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Life-Romes-First-Emperor/dp/0812970586/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Anthony+Everitt&qid=1610612654&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A2656022011&rnid=618072011&s=books&sr=1-4
2007
(Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a...)
Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance. What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively "Hellenized" Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life. By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.
https://www.amazon.com/Hadrian-Triumph-Rome-Anthony-Everitt-ebook/dp/B002M41U2O/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Anthony+Everitt&qid=1610612654&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A2656022011&rnid=618072011&s=books&sr=1-5
2009
(From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed...)
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world’s preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome’s rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with lasting lessons for our time. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the politics of the Republic. He shows how Rome’s shrewd strategy of offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Rome’s imperial expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to violence and civil war. In the end, unimaginable wealth and power corrupted the traditional virtues of the Republic, and Rome was left triumphant everywhere except within its own borders.
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Rome-Making-Worlds-Greatest/dp/0812978153/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Anthony+Everitt&qid=1610612654&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A2656022011&rnid=618072011&s=books&sr=1-3
2013
(A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient...)
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian. Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world - from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city’s political and cultural golden age, to its decline into the ancient equivalent of a modern-day university town.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CWZGAFO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5
2016
(What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious d...)
What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L2HP9N4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
2019
Everitt was born on January 31, 1940, in England, United Kingdom, the son of Michael Anthony Hamill and Simone Dolores Cathérine Everitt.
Everitt was educated at Cheltenham College and Corpus Christi College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge University.
Everitt has been deeply involved in arts education and funding in the United Kingdom. He has served in leadership positions in various regional and national arts councils, and was secretary-general of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1990 to 1994. Since that time, Everitt has been a consultant to European arts funding agencies and a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and City University in London.
Everitt is the author of several works on cultural issues related to the arts, including cooperation between governments and arts agencies, the development of European culture, and financial support for artists and the arts. His study Joining In: An Investigation into Participatory Music, for example, discusses such music programs as orchestral "outreach" tours and music education for adults, and offers recommendations for strengthening music administration throughout Britain.
Everitt's biography of the Roman orator Cicero was published in 2001. In this study, Everitt sets out to reintroduce readers to this political figure, who was well known to generations as the author of political and legal speeches that were studied by students in advanced Latin classes. Marcus Tullius Cicero lived from 106 B.C. to about 43 B.C. and is remembered for his eloquent writings on politics and philosophy. His literary style and his republican political ideals were greatly admired by the framers of the American Constitution, and they remain influential today.
In 2006, Everitt wrote about another legendary Roman figure in the biography Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor. In this book, the author recounts the emperor's final days and untimely death, including his wife's involvement. Everitt also details Augustus's rise to the position of emperor, including a concise synopsis of his childhood and later his power struggle with Mark Antony. Throughout, the author also includes vignettes that provide insight into Augustus's personality and personal habits. Many critics enjoyed Everitt's detailed biography, citing the book's new take on the emperor's life.
(From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed...)
2013(What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious d...)
2019(A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient...)
2016(He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As...)
2007(Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a...)
2009