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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811929603321

Autore

Swan Peter Michael <1931->

Titolo

The Augustan succession : an historical commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman history, Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14) / / Peter Michael Swan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770432-8

1-280-53421-4

0-19-534714-5

1-4237-2084-9

1-4337-0090-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

American classical studies ; ; no. 47

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

937/.07

Soggetti

Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-400) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes for the Reader; Maps; 1. The Northern Frontiers; 2. Augustan Rome; 3. The East under Augustus; 4. Italy; 5. The Provinces in Dio's Time; 6. Rebellion in Illyricum A.D. 6-9; Introduction; 1. Chronology of Dio's Life, Career, and Writings; 2. How Dio Portrays Himself; 3. Dio's View of History; 4. Dio on Augustus' Place in Roman History; 5. How Dio Composed His Account of Augustus' Reign (31 B.C.- A.D. 14); 6. The Text of Books 55-56; Commentary; Book 55: 9 B.C.- A.D. 8; Book 56: A.D. 9-14; Appendixes; 1. How Dio Visualized Trans-Rhenane Germany under Augustus

2. Dio on Tiber Floods3. Augustan imperatores; 4. Dio on Distributions of Largesse (congiaria) in Augustan Rome; 5. Dio on Famines; 6. One More Problem in the Fasti Praenestini of 16 January; 7. Suetonius Aug. 34.1-2 and the Dates of Augustus' Marriage Laws; 8. Sources on the War in Dalmatia, A.D. 9; 9. Velleius 2.115.4 on the War in Dalmatia: An Emendation; 10. Sources on the Varian Disaster, A.D. 9; 11. On the Text of Dio 56.21.2-3 (Varian Disaster); 12. Augustus' Last Will: Substitute Heirs; 13. How Much Did Dio Alter the Editio Princeps of His



History in Preparing Its Second Edition?

14. Dio 55.12.3[sup(a)]-5 (Xiph.-Zon.) on the Value of the Aureus and Denarius15. How the Book Numbers Work in Boissevain's Dio Edition, Vol. 3, Books 61-80; Bibliography and Abbreviations; Index; 1. Disputed or New Readings; 2. Index of Selected Passages; 3. Greek Words; 4. Latin Words; 5. Persons, Places, and Institutions

Sommario/riassunto

This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work.