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"Augustus (63 BC - AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next three hundred years. This book presents a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Edmondson, Jonathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Alemán
Latín
Griego
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Series:Edinburgh readings on the ancient world.
Subjects:
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D
30 B.C.-68 A.D
HISTORY > Ancient.
Politics and government
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Rome > Politics and government > 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-14 (Auguste)
Rome > Politique et gouvernement > 30 av. J.-C.-68.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : approaching the age of Augustus
  • Imperator Caesar : a study in nomeclature / Ronald Syme
  • Triumvirate and principate / Fergus Millar
  • The powers of Augustus / Jean-Louis Ferrary, trans. Jonathan Edmondson
  • Augustus, war and peace / J.W. Rich
  • Livia and the womanhood of Rome / Nicholas Purcell
  • The political significance of Augustus' military reforms / Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • The administrative reforms of Augustus : pragmatism or systematic planning? / Werner Eck, trans. Claus Nader
  • Family and inheritance in the Augustan marriage laws / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
  • To honour the Princeps and venerage the gods : public cult, neighbourhood cults, and imperial cult in Augustan Rome / John Scheid, trans. Jonathan Edmondson
  • Monuments of the Battle of Actium : propaganda and response / Tonio Hölscher, trans. Claus Nader
  • Meretrix regina : Augustan Cleopatras / Maria Wyke
  • Cybele, Vergil and Augustus / T.P. Wiseman
  • Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum / T.J. Luce
  • Colonia Augusta Emerita, capital of Lusitania / Walter Trillmich, trans. Claus Nader
  • The cities of the Greek world under Augustus / Glen Bowersock.

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