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Caligula
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ISBN: 1134246927 1134246935 1280096926 0203003721 9780203003725 9780415341219 0415341213 9780415357685 0415357683 0415341213 0415357683 9781134246922 9781134246939 9781280096921 9781134246885 2070386708 9782070386703 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The death of Caligula
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ISBN: 1781385602 1781387176 9781781387177 9781781385609 9781846319648 1846319641 9781846319631 1846319633 Year: 2013 Publisher: Liverpool

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The emperor Gaius ('Caligula') was assassinated in January A.D.41. Since he was the last of the Julii, and he left no heir, it seemed that the dynasty of Caesar and Augustus was finished.Accordingly, the Republic was restored, but then a coup d'etat by the Praetorian Guard put Claudius in power . . . the dramatic events of these few days are a crucial turning-point in Roman history - the moment when the military basis of the Principate was first made explicit.Tacitus' account has not survived, and Suetonius and Dio Cassisu offer no adequate substitute. Fortunately, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus chose to insert into his 'Jewish Antiquities' - as an example of the providence of God - a detailed narrative of the assassination plot and its aftermath taken from contemporary and well-informed Roman sources.This new edition of T.P. Wiseman's acclaimed Death of an Emperor (his translation and commentary of Josephus' account of Caligula's assassination) includes an updated bibliography, revised introduction, translation and commentary. Appendix 1 on the Augustan Palatine has been completely revised to take account of recent archaeological information.


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The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Translated in the Metres of the Original
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus
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ISBN: 9789004227415 9004227415 1322514836 9004278656 9789004278653 9781322514833 Year: 2014 Volume: *14 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual transmission, language, poetic techniques, main themes, characters, relationship to intertexts and reception. This will be a standard point of departure for anyone interested in Valerius Flaccus or Flavian epic more generally. Contributors are: Antony Augoustakis, Michael Barich, Neil Bernstein, Emma Buckley, Cristiano Castelletti, James Clauss, Robert Cowan, Peter Davis, Alain Deremetz, Attila Ferenczi, Marco Fucecchi, Randall Ganiban, Mark Heerink, Alison Keith, Helen Lovatt, Gesine Manuwald, Ruth Parkes, Tim Stover, Ruth Taylor-Briggs, and Andrew Zissos.

Augustan Egypt
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ISBN: 0203943945 1135873690 1135873682 9781135873684 9780203943946 9781135873691 9780415972178 0415972175 9780415512954 0415512956 9781135873646 113587364X Year: 2016 Publisher: London New York

Augustus Caesar
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ISBN: 0203022882 1134364539 1280168749 9780203022887 9780415319355 0415319358 9780415319362 0415319366 9786610168743 6610168741 0415319358 0415319366 9781134364534 9781134364480 1134364482 9781134364527 1134364520 1566196671 9781566196673 9781280168741 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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History sees Augustus Caesar as the first emperor of Rome, whose system of ordered government provided a firm and stable basis for the successive expansion and prosperity of the Roman Empire over the next two centuries. Hailed as restorer of the Republic' and regarded by some as a deity in his own lifetime, Augustus became an object of emulation for many of his successors. This pamphlet reviews the evidence in order to place Augustus firmly in the context of his own times. It explores the background to his spectacular rise to power, his political and imperial reforms, and the creation of the Respublica of Augustus and the legacy left to his successors. By examining the hopes and expectations of his contemporaries and his own personal qualities of statesmanship and unscrupulous ambition, Shotter reveals that the reasons for Augustus' success lie partly in the complexity of the man himself, and partly in the unique nature of the times in which he lived.


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Augustus : Introduction to the Life of an Emperor
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ISBN: 9780521767972 9780521744423 0521767970 0521744423 9781139045575 1139507885 1107225167 1139517414 9786613685438 1139045571 1139514849 1139513915 1139516493 1139518348 1280775041 9781139518345 9781139514842 9781139516495 9781139514842 9781139507882 9781107225169 9781280775048 6613685437 9781139517416 9781139513913 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Cambridge university press

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Augustus, Rome's first emperor, is one of the great figures of world history and one of the most fascinating. In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification. He chronicles the mosaic of vicissitudes, challenges, setbacks and successes that shaped Augustus' life, both public and private. How did he use his power? How did he manage to keep re-inventing himself? What kind of man was he? A transformative leader, Augustus engineered profound change in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world. No one would have expected such vast achievements from the frail and little-known eighteen-year-old who became Caesar's heir amid turmoil and crisis. A mere thirteen years later, after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, he had, in his words, 'power over all things'.

Strabo of Amasia
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ISBN: 1134605617 1280069554 0585449279 0203462181 9780203462188 9780415216722 0415216729 9780585449272 0415216729 9781134605613 9781134605569 1134605560 9781134605606 1134605609 9780415620178 0415620171 9786610069552 6610069557 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routlege

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Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles. It argues for a deeper understanding of the fusion of Greek and Roman elements in the culture of the Roman Empire. Though he wrote in Greek, Strabo must be regarded as an 'Augustan' writer like Virgil or Livy.


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A city of marble : the rhetoric of Augustan Rome
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ISBN: 1611173361 9781611173369 1299852017 9781299852013 1611172772 9781611172775 Year: 2013 Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : Published by the University of South Carolina Press,

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In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.-14 c. e.).Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves on to those most obviously using rhetorical techniques in visual form. She then arrives at those objects least recognizable as rhetorical artifacts, but perhaps most si

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