Tiberius, the Tyrant (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Tarver, John Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330224817 ISBN 13: 9781330224816

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Claudian stock, and the Livian, with which it was inter-married, was only less distinguished. Augustus had been tolerated, for his services to the State could not be disregarded, but some day Augustus would die; he did die; his power fell into the hands of the most prominent representative of the old Roman nobility; the opportunity for a restoration of the narrow oligarchy of the Republic came, and it passed away for ever. Two years after the death of Tiberius his lunatic successor was stabbed by a soldier whom he had insulted the State was left a few days without a head, and the Curia was so inanimate that it could neither restore its own rule, nor provide a new Em peror it had to accept apparently at the dictation of the soldiers in the Praetorian barracks a man of letters who had hitherto been the laughing stock of the Imperial family.

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Used as we are to the terminology and conditions of heredity monarchy and territorial sovereignty, we find it hard to appreciated, or even to express in terms of modern politics the difficulties which beset the statesmen of Rome at the death of Augustus; and we are further tempted to read into the story of that critical period ideas, which we only conceivable after the crisis was over; we can hardly avoid seeing those days in the light of subsequent events, or speaking of them in language which involves anachronism. Our information is principally derived from historians, who wrote a century and a half after the death of Julius Caesar, when the Government of the Emperor and the Senate was established; but the position of Augustus, and the Senate of Trajan was not the Senate of Tiberius.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330224817
• ISBN 13: 9781330224816
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464