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Written in the author's maternal Greek, the Roman History of the third-century A.D. historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor Augustus. In The Augustan Succession Peter Michael Swan provides an ample historical and historiographic commentary on Books 55-56 of the History. These books recount Augustus's last twenty-three years (9 B.C.-A.D. 14), during which the aging monarch, amid dynastic tragedies and military setbacks, orchestrated the continuation of the constitutional and imperial system developed under his leadership, which ended in his transmission of power to his son-in-law Tiberius. The Augustan Succession is the first commentary since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work. This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul. An acute and interested contemporary observer of wide experience, positioned close to the seat of imperial power, he was a self-assured personality who embodied deeply conservative political and social views and prejudices. All these factors inform the pages of Dio's Augustan narrative, as does, above all, his doctrine that the best remedy for the troubles of his own age of "rust and iron" was rule on the model of Augustus. This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work.
Genre | : History |
Author | : Peter Michael Swan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Release | : 2004-06-17 |
File | : 449 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780195347142 |
Genre | : Latin literature |
Author | : John Colin Dunlop |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1827 |
File | : 364 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UGA:32108010553868 |
While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B.C. and forward to the reign of Nero in search of documentation of the Augustan aristocracy. Syme draws particularly on the Annals of Tacitus to cover 150 years in the history of Roman families, chronicling their splendor and success, as well as their subsequent fall within the embrace of the dynasty.
Genre | : History |
Author | : Ronald Syme |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Release | : 1989 |
File | : 574 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0198147317 |
The great achievements of Augustan Rome are described and evaluated
Genre | : History |
Author | : Henry Thompson Rowell |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Release | : 1962 |
File | : 268 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0806109564 |
Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the "Augustan" age of English literature, a time in which classical Augustan ideals provided a main source of inspiration. Scholars have held that British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century considered Augustus Caesar to be the model of the wise ruler who enabled political, literary, and moral wisdom to flourish. This book shows on the contrary that classical standards, though often invoked, were often rejected by many informed citizens and writers of the day. Anti-Augustan sentiment consolidated by the 1730s, when both Whig and Tory, court and country, viewed Augustus as the enemy of the mixed and balanced constitution that was responsible for British liberty. Professor Weinbrot focuses in particular on literature and its classical backgrounds, reinterpreting major works by Pope and Gibbon. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
Author | : Howard D. Weinbrot |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
File | : 284 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781400871704 |
Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.
Genre | : History |
Author | : R. O. Bucholz |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Release | : 1993 |
File | : 452 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0804720800 |
This is the first volume of a projected four-volume reference guide to British literary magazines. The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson covers the literature of the period between 1698, when the London Spy began publishing, through 1788. The work contains historical essays, publication details, and bibliographic sources for ninety magazines and lists, in two appendixes, an additional eighty-three magazines of the period.
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author | : Alvin Sullivan |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Release | : 1983 |
File | : 472 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UOM:39015013315562 |
Covers the years 28 to 5 BC; includes Dio's discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated.
Genre | : History |
Author | : J. W. Rich |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1990 |
File | : 273 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780856683831 |
First published in 1972, this set of 9 volumes contains all contemporary British periodical reviews of the first (or other significantly early) editions from 1793 and 1824 of works by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. In addition, a few later reviews are supplied, as well as a substantial number of reviews of other contemporary figures, including William Godwin, Robert Southey, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Moore, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names, dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. The index serves to locate authors and titles reviewed, reviewers, sources of quotations, other people and works mentioned and other proper nouns of interest. This comprehensive set will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature.
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
Author | : Donald Reiman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Release | : 2022-07-30 |
File | : 4202 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781134970643 |