The age of Augustus / Werner Eck.
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| Superior document: | Blackwell ancient lives |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Language: | English German |
| Series: | Blackwell ancient lives.
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| Physical Description: | x, 209 p. :; ill., maps. |
| Notes: | Translation of: Augustus Und Seine Zeit. |
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Table of Contents:
- Augustus' career in overview : the res gestae
- Modest origins, powerful relatives
- Seizing power and legalizing usurpation
- The triumvirate : dictatorship sanctioned by law
- The path to formal legitimation as a ruler
- The final battles for power : Actium and Alexandria
- A new political order : the principate takes shape
- The principate develops further
- The princeps and the Roman elite
- The practical implementation of political power : governing the empire
- Shaping the lives of men
- A standing army
- War and peace : expanding the empire
- Rome, the Augustan city
- The quest for political continuity: the succession
- Augustus' death and the future of the empire.