Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14: A Source-based Approach (Aspects of Classical Civilisation)
Hilary Swain
Language: English
Pages: 448
ISBN: 0415496942
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from pre-university to undergraduate level.
This is the first book since H.H. Scullard’s From the Gracchi to Nero, published two generations ago, to offer a full introductory account of one of the most compelling and vital periods in the history of Europe. Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14:
- brings to life the great figures of Pompey, Caesar, Antony, Cleopatra and Augustus, and explores how power was gained, used and abused
- covers the lives of women and slaves, the running of the empire and the lives of provincials, and religion, culture and propaganda
- offers both a survey of the main topics and a detailed narrative through the close examination of sources
- introduces students to the problems of interpreting evidence, and helps develop the knowledge and skills needed to further the study of ancient history.
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Previous measures concerning repetundae, the recovery of goods and money extorted from the provinces, and a permanent court already existed in which provincials could make claims against governors and their staff. Provincials had the power to bring cases in their own right and, if successful, could reclaim double the value of the goods; Sulla increased this to two-and-a-half times. Since the time of Gaius Gracchus the juries had been composed of equites. Sulla replaced the equestrian jurors with.
Of a few of Cicero’s most important amici in the 60s, however, would suggest the support he received was not as unexpected as Plutarch would have us believe. Cicero’s links with Ahenobarbus have already been mentioned. It was an important connection, as he was the brother-in-law of Cato who, in turn, had a half-sister married to Lucullus, and a half-brother married to the daughter of Hortensius. Cicero had worked closely during the trial of Verres with Lentulus Marcellinus, who had strong.
Virgil and Horace in his brief Lives of the Poets. Because of his position, Suetonius had privileged access to very valuable documents, including letters of Mark Antony and Augustus. He is mainly concerned, like Plutarch, with personal character. He organises his biographies thematically rather than chronologically and he is frustratingly uninterested in dates. In this book, all references to Suetonius are to his life of Julius Caesar, unless specified. Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus was born in.
Within a 400-mile radius of Italy.1 Cicero went to Greece and eventually settled at Thessalonica, living comfortably in the official residence of the quaestor, Plancius, who was a friend, and subsidised by Atticus who had given him 250,000 sesterces. Cicero’s own property had been confiscated and Clodius took enormous pleasure in organising the demolition of his house 138 THE ROAD TO LUCA, 58–56 on the Palatine. He removed the adjacent Portico of Catulus and rebuilt it on such a scale that it.
Parthians were in retreat and was therefore pursuing them, hoping to catch up with their army. Marshall (1976: 157) convincingly argues that ‘Crassus chose the route for military reasons and not because he was deceived into taking it. These stories appear then as the exaggerations of later Roman apologists to account for the disastrous failure of a Roman army’. Plutarch (Crassus 22) describes the dispiriting march across the desert, which ‘exhausted the men, but also … filled them with an.