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Trajan : optimus princeps : a life and times /
Did Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere of Heaven among the Just and Temperate rulers? In this, the only biography of Trajan available in English, Julian Bennett rigorously tests the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Colección: | Roman imperial biographies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND MAPS; PLATES; OUTLINE OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLEGOMENON; I THE MAKING OF A NEW ARISTOCRACY; II THE RISE OF THE ULPII; III IMPERIAL EXPANSION AND CRISIS; IV DOMITIAN'S GENERAL, NERVA'S HEIR; V THE NEW RULER; VI A PUBLIC IDEOLOGY; VII THE INAUGURATION OF A NEW ERA; VIII DACICUS; IX OPTIMUS PRINCEPS; X LAW, FINANCE AND LITERATURE; XI PATER PATRIAE; XII 'REDACTA IN FORMAM PROVINCIAE ... '; XIII PARTHICUS; XIV A PERFECT PRINCE?; APPENDIX DIO'S ACCOUNT OF THE DACIAN WARS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES AND REFERENCES