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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462372503321

Titolo

The Julio-Claudian succession [[electronic resource] ] : reality and perception of the "Augustan model" / / edited by A.G.G. Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85433-3

90-04-23584-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne. Supplements, , 0169-8958 ; ; v349

Altri autori (Persone)

GibsonA. G. G (Alisdair G. G.)

Disciplina

937.06

937.07

Soggetti

Emperors - Succession - Rome

Electronic books.

Rome History Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / A.G.G. Gibson -- Introduction / A.G.G. Gibson -- Suetonius and the Succession to Augustus / Josiah Osgood -- Perceptions of the Domus Augusta, ad4–24 / Robin Seager -- Tiberius and the Invention of Succession / Caroline Vout -- The Identity of Drusus: The Making of a Princeps / Jane Bellemore -- The Lousy Reputation of Piso / Roger Rees -- ‘All Things to All Men’: Claudius and the Politics of ad41 / A.G.G. Gibson -- Nero Insitiuus: Constructing Neronian Identity in the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia / Emma Buckley -- Nero Caesar and the Half-Baked Principate / John Drinkwater -- Index / A.G.G. Gibson.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays considers the challenging questions around the formation, establishment and continuation of the Julio-Claudian principate from the coming to power of Augustus. Augustus laid down the ground rules for a princeps , and the essays explore the subsequent transition of power, and how the succession and subsequent rule manifested itself, even though there was no formal mechanism for such a transfer. These essays fully utilize the extant literary, epigraphic, numismatic and visual record to evaluate Augustus’ “political legacy”. The representation, and retention, of power was a



critical issue for the princeps and his subjects, and the contributors provide fresh political and literary analysis of aspects of the principates of Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius and Nero.