The True Story

Marcus Agrippa was the man Augustus could not do without.

General. Admiral. Statesman. Diplomat. Builder. Best friend, trusted lieutenant and son-in-law of Rome’s first emperor. For more than three decades, Agrippa fought Rome’s enemies, defeated rival fleets, negotiated with kings, pacified provinces, and transformed the city of Rome. His military victories helped make Augustus’s empire possible.

Robert Harris’s new novel, Agrippa, brings this remarkable Roman back into the spotlight. But what was the real man like?

Now discover the true story behind the fiction.

Acclaimed historian and writer Lindsay Powell draws on the surviving historical evidence to tell the extraordinary story of Marcus Agrippa, from his rise from obscurity to his role as Augustus’s indispensable right-hand man. Agrippa emerges not as a supporting character in someone else’s story, but as one of the most consequential figures of ancient Rome in his own right.

Available in paperback and as an ebook.