Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14

Author: J. S. Richardson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history. Within this period the Roman world was reconfigured. On a political and constitutional level the patterns of the republic, which sustained an oligarchic regime and a popularist structure, were transformed into a monarchical dictatorship in which the earlier elements continued to function. On an imperial level, the growth in Roman power reached what was virtually its apogee. In literature and the visual arts, new forms of expression, based on those of the previous generations but closely linked to the new regime, showed great achievements. In society and the economy, the effectiveness and dominance of Rome as the centre of world power became increasingly obvious.

Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14

Author: John S. Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748655328
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description

Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14

Author: J. S Richardson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748655336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC–AD 14)

Author: Clare Rowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037484
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
A richly illustrated introduction to the contribution of Roman and provincial coinage to the history of this period, aimed at undergraduates.

The Roman World 44 BC–AD 180

Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134943857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
Goodman presents a lucid and balanced picture of the Roman world examining the Roman empire from a variety of perspectives; cultural, political, civic, social and religious.

Rome's Enemies Within

Author: John S McHugh
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399061593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
The greatest danger to Roman emperors was the threat of deadly conspiracies arising among the Senate, the imperial court or even their own families All the emperors that reigned from Augustus to the end of the first century AD faced such efforts to overthrow or assassinate them. John McHugh uncovers these conspiracies, narrating them and seeking to explain them. The underlying cause in many cases was the decline in influence, patronage and status granted by emperors to the Senatorial class, leading some to seek power for themselves or a more generous candidate. Attempted assassinations or coups led the emperors to mistrust the Senate and rely more on freedmen, causing more resentment. Paranoid emperors often reacted to the merest hint of treason, real or imagined, with punishments and executions, leading more of those around them to consider desperate measures out of self-preservation. And of course, amid this vicious circle of poisonous mistrust, there were ambitious family members promoting their own (or their offspring’s) claims to the purple, and the duplicitous Praetorian Guard. John McHugh brings to light a century of assassination, conspiracy and betrayal, exploring the motives and aims of the plotters and the bloody cost of success or failure.

Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363

Author: Jill Harries
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

Cambridge Ancient History

Author: Stanley Arthur Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1057

Book Description
The period described in Volume 10 begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 1-6 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions of government are described and analysed. Chapters 13-14 offer a survey of the Roman world in this period region by region, and chapters 15-21 deal with the most important social and cultural developments of the era the city of Rome, the structure of society, art, literature, and law. Central to the period is the achievement of the first emperor, Augustus.

Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014

Author: Penelope J. Goodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842368X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
Explores two thousand years of radically changing opinions on the emperor Augustus, and what they reveal about the historical individual.

Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284

Author: Clifford Ando
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of 'crisis'. Between 235 and 284, at least eighteen men held the throne of the empire, for an average of less than three years, a reckoning which does not take into account all the relatives and lieutenants with whom those men shared power. Compared to the century between the accession of Nerva and the death of Commodus, this appears to be a period of near unintelligibility. The middle of the century also witnessed catastrophic, if temporary, ruptures in the territorial integrity of the empire. At slightly different times, large portions of the eastern and western halves of the empire passed under the control of powers and principalities who assumed the mantle of Roman government and exercised meaningful and legitimate juridical, political and military power over millions. The success and longevity of those political formations reflected local responses to the collapse of Roman governmental power in the face of extraordinary pressure on its borders. Even those regions that remained Roman were subjected to depredation and pillage by invading armies. The Roman peace, which had become in the last instance the justification for empire, had been shattered. In this pioneering history Clifford Ando describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change.