The age of Augustus /
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| Author / Creator: | Eck, Werner. |
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| Uniform title: | Augustus und seine Zeit. English |
| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2003. |
| Description: | vi, 166 p. : maps ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4789675 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- 1. Augustus' Career in Overview: The Res Gestae
- 2. Modest Origins, Powerful Relatives
- 3. Seizing Power and Legalizing Usurpation
- 4. The Triumvirate: Dictatorship Sanctioned by Law
- 5. The Path to Formal Legitimation as a Ruler
- 6. The Final Battles for Power: Actium and Alexandria
- 7. A New Political Order: The Principate Takes Shape
- 8. The Principate Develops Further
- 9. The Princeps and the Roman Elite
- 10. The Practical Implementation of Political Power: Governing the Empire
- 11. Shaping the Lives of Men
- 12. A Standing Army
- 13. War and Peace: Expanding the Empire
- 14. Rome, the Augustan City
- 15. The Quest for Political Continuity: The Succession
- 16. Augustus' Death and the Future of the Empire
- Time Line
- Appendix. The Res Gestae of Augustus
- The Res Gestae of Augustus
- Select Bibliography
- Index