The Julio-Claudian Succession

Reality and Perception of the Augustan Model
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23191-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 349, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

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 set out 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.

Contributors: Jane Bellemore, Emma Buckley, John Drinkwater, Alisdair Gibson, Josiah Osgood,
Roger Rees, Robin Seager, Caroline Vout.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in political history, the history of first century Rome, Latin Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Art as well as numismatists, iconographers and epigraphers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Alisdair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Suetonius and the Succession to Augustus, Josiah Osgood
Perceptions of the Domus Augusta, AD 4-24, Robin Seager
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus 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: political perception and reality in AD41, Alisdair Gibson
Nero insitiuus: constructing Neronian identity in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia, Emma Buckley
Nero and the half-baked Principate, John Drinkwater

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gibson, Alisdair
A.G.G. Gibson holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh and is an Honorary Research Fellow in Ancient History at the School of Classics, University of St Andrews.

A.G.G. Gibson holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh and is an Honorary Research Fellow in Ancient History at the School of Classics, University of St Andrews.

Contributors: Jane Bellemore, Emma Buckley, John Drinkwater, Alisdair Gibson, Josiah Osgood,
Roger Rees, Robin Seager, Caroline Vout.