From Augustus to Nero

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521821207
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis From Augustus to Nero by : Garrett G. Fagan

Download or read book From Augustus to Nero written by Garrett G. Fagan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his firm moral policies and secret adulterous affairs; the sour and depraved Tiberius; the extravagance and madness of Caligula; the slobbering and ineffective Claudius; and Nero with his absurd artistic pretensions. Exciting, horrific and moving, the selections are also valuable for studying style and rhetoric, human nature and the roles of women, imperialism and corruption. The book is aimed at students moving on to genuine, unsimplified Latin prose after completing an introductory Latin course. It contains a useful introduction, detailed notes providing a lot of help with grammar, expression and translation, a full vocabulary, and an appreciation offering historical comment for context and analysis and literary criticism to make the passages come alive as literature and enhance students' perception and enjoyment.

Augustus to Nero

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Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Augustus to Nero by : David Braund

Download or read book Augustus to Nero written by David Braund and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nero Caesar Augustus

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131786591X
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis Nero Caesar Augustus by : David Shotter

Download or read book Nero Caesar Augustus written by David Shotter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propelled to power by the age of 17 by an ambitious mother, self-indulgent to the point of criminality, inadequate, paranoid and the perpetrator of heinous crimes including matricide and fratricide, and deposed and killed by 31, Nero is one of Rome’s most infamous Emperors. But has history treated him fairly? Or is the popular view of Nero as a capricious and depraved individual a travesty of the truth and a gross injustice to Rome's fifth emperor? This new biography will look at Nero’s life with fresh eyes. While showing the man 'warts and all', it also caste a critical eye on the 'libels' which were perpetrated on him, such as claiming he was a madman, many of which were most probably made up to suit the needs of the Flavians, who had overthrown his dynasty.

Augustus to Nero (Routledge Revivals)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317669584
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Book Synopsis Augustus to Nero (Routledge Revivals) by : David Braund

Download or read book Augustus to Nero (Routledge Revivals) written by David Braund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years from the battle of Actium to the death of Nero stand at the very heart of Roman history. Yet the sources of this key period, particularly the inscriptions, papyri and coins, are not readily accessible. Crucial new discoveries remain buried in learned periodicals, and now that the study of the ancient world is widespread among those without Latin and Greek, the lack of translations is proving a serious handicap. Augustus to Nero, first published in 1985, contains numerous texts not only for students of traditional political history, but also of those interested in social and economic history. An introductory essay establishes a broad methodological framework within which each text may be understood. The focus throughout is on less well-known literary evidence: for example, the significant poetry of Crinagoras and Calpurnius Siculus. Inaccessible sources are here collected and translated: brief notes are supplied to help the reader.

The Emperor Nero

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881102
Total Pages : 331 pages
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Book Synopsis The Emperor Nero by : Anthony A. Barrett

Download or read book The Emperor Nero written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero's reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians—not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into a single collection the major sources for Nero's life and rule, providing students of Nero and ancient Rome with the most authoritative and accessible reader there is. The Emperor Nero features clear, contemporary translations of key literary sources along with translations and explanations of representative inscriptions and coins issued under Nero. The informative introduction situates the emperor's reign within the history of the Roman Empire, and the book's concise headnotes to chapters place the source material in historical and biographical context. Passages are accompanied by detailed notes and are organized around events, such as the Great Fire of Rome, or by topic, such as Nero's relationships with his wives. Complex events like the war with Parthia—split up among several chapters in Tacitus's Annals—are brought together in continuous narratives, making this the most comprehensible and user-friendly sourcebook on Nero available. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Augustus to Nero

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ISBN 13 : 9780709906599
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Augustus to Nero by : David Braund

Download or read book Augustus to Nero written by David Braund and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ten Caesars

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668848
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Book Synopsis Ten Caesars by : Barry Strauss

Download or read book Ten Caesars written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052203
Total Pages : 423 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero by : Shadi Bartsch

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero written by Shadi Bartsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.

Nero

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134364318
Total Pages : 129 pages
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Book Synopsis Nero by : David Shotter

Download or read book Nero written by David Shotter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Nero is often judged to be the embodiment of the extravagance and the corruption that have, for many, come to symbolise ancient Rome. David Shotter provides a reassessment of this view in this accessible introduction to Nero, emperor of Rome from 54 to 68 AD. All the major issues are discussed including: • Nero’s early life and accession to power • Nero’s perception of himself • Nero’s domestic and international policies • the reasons for Nero’s fall from power and its aftermath. This new edition has been revised throughout to take account of recent research in the field.

Staging Memory, Staging Strife

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190275952
Total Pages : 249 pages
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Book Synopsis Staging Memory, Staging Strife by : Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

Download or read book Staging Memory, Staging Strife written by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler from outside the house of Caesar. The anonymous historical drama Octavia is the earliest literary witness to this era of uncertainty and upheaval. In Staging Memory, Staging Strife, Lauren Donovan Ginsberg offers a new reading of how the play intervenes in the contests over memory after Nero's fall. Though Augustus and his heirs had claimed that the Principate solved Rome's curse of civil war, the play reimagines early imperial Rome as a landscape of civil strife with a ruling family waging war both on itself and on its people. In doing so, the Octavia shows how easily empire becomes a breeding ground for the passions of discord. In order to rewrite the history of Rome's first imperial dynasty, the Octavia engages with the literature of Julio-Claudian Rome, using the words of Rome's most celebrated authors to stage a new reading of that era and its ruling family. In doing so, the play opens a dialogue about literary versions of history and about the legitimacy of those historical accounts. Through an innovative combination of intertextual analysis and cultural memory theory, Ginsberg contextualizes the roles that literature and the literary manipulation of memory play in negotiating the transition between the Julio-Claudian and Flavian regimes. Her book claims for the Octavia a central role in current debates over both the ways in which Nero and his family were remembered as well as the politics of literary and cultural memory in the early Roman empire.

From Augustus to Nero

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ISBN 13 : 9780870132636
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis From Augustus to Nero by : Ronald Mellor

Download or read book From Augustus to Nero written by Ronald Mellor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Augustus to Nero

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780709932062
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Augustus to Nero by : David Braund

Download or read book Augustus to Nero written by David Braund and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the Gracchi to Nero

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136783873
Total Pages : 525 pages
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Book Synopsis From the Gracchi to Nero by : H. H. Scullard

Download or read book From the Gracchi to Nero written by H. H. Scullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scullard's clear and comprehensive narrative covers the period from 133 BC to 69 AD, exploring the decline and fall of the Republic, and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. More than forty years after its first publication this masterful survey remains the standard textbook on the central period of Roman history.

The Annals

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191605034
Total Pages : 592 pages
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Book Synopsis The Annals by : Cornelius Tacitus

Download or read book The Annals written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman emperors who followed Augustus, the founder of the imperial system, and of the murders, sycophancy, plotting, and oppression that marked this period in Rome. Tacitus provides the earliest and most detailed account of Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, and his history also relates the great fire of Rome in the reign of Nero, and the persecution of the Christians that followed. He deplores the depravity of the emperors, whose behaviour he sees as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power. J. C. Yardley's translation is vivid and accurate, and Anthony A. Barrett's introduction and notes provide invaluable historical and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Roman Emperors

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ISBN 13 : 9781647486723
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Roman Emperors written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Augustus is historically important because his leadership marked out a new era in the story of the Roman world, an era that would see the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Mediterranean and beyond.

Nero Caesar Augustus

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Total Pages : 257 pages
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Nero

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108472648
Total Pages : 469 pages
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Book Synopsis Nero by : J. F. Drinkwater

Download or read book Nero written by J. F. Drinkwater and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero was negligent, not tyrannical. This allowed others to rule, remarkably well, in his name until his negligence became insupportable.