The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume X. The Empire of Augustus 43 B.C. - A.D. 69. In 2 half-volumes
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The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume X. The Empire of Augustus 43 B.C. - A.D. 69. In 2 half-volumes
99.99 €
This volume examines one of the most vivid and dramatic periods of ancient Roman history, from the assassination of Julius Caesar to the rise to power of Emperor Vespasian. In these decades, the usual republican institutions collapsed, the great Rome year after year drowned in civil wars. And at the same time, under the rule of perhaps the most famous, most colorful and most controversial dynasty - Julius-Claudianus, on the ruins of the former might was building a new Roman Empire. This volume traces step by step how the adopted son of Caesar passed a long and difficult path from a young avenger to the murderers of his father to the Emperor Augustus, the founder of the new state system and the ruler of a huge and prosperous empire, tells how to replace Caligula, one of the most odious emperors, came Claudius, the one whom Augustus considered unsuitable even for the usual political career of a member of the imperial house. The book presents different areas of life in the Roman Empire - political and military history, court mores and everyday life in remote provinces, religion and culture, economy and social structure of society. Paragraphs devoted entirely to individual provinces allow, on the one hand, to see the life of ordinary people in the most remote corners of the empire, and on the other hand, to visualize the scale and growing power of the new Rome. Much attention is also paid to other areas, namely the imperial court, finance and taxation, the positions of senators and horsemen, the navy and army, literature and the arts.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Cambridge History of the Ancient World