Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire - Softcover

Osgood, Josiah

 
9780521708258: Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521708257 ISBN 13: 9780521708258
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The story of Claudius has often been told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far shrewder, if still frustrated, politician. In this book, Josiah Osgood shifts the focus off the personality of Claudius and on to what his tumultuous years in power reveal about the developing political culture of the early Roman Empire. What precedents set by Augustus were followed? What had to be abandoned? How could a new emperor win the support of key elements of Roman society? This richly illustrated discussion draws on a range of newly discovered documents, exploring events that move far beyond the city of Rome and Italy to Egypt and Judea, Morocco and Britain. Claudius Caesar provides a new perspective not just on Claudius himself, but on all Roman emperors, the Roman Empire, and the nature of empires more generally.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Josiah Osgood is Associate Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. His teaching and research touch many areas of Roman history and Latin literature, but focus especially on the late Roman Republic and early Empire. His first book, Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006), examined the period after the assassination of Julius Caesar. Osgood has more recently published several articles on Caesar, as well as aspects of Roman family life and education. He is currently finishing a Latin textbook for intermediate and advanced students, A Suetonius Reader, and is also co-editing with Susanna Braund A Companion to Persius and Juvenal.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521708257
ISBN 13 
9780521708258
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
374
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Verantwortliche Person
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