Claudius Caesar : image and power in the early Roman empire

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Claudius Caesar : image and power in the early Roman empire

Josiah Osgood

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-350) and index

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内容説明

The story of Claudius has often been told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far shrewder, if still frustrated, politician. In this book, Josiah Osgood shifts the focus off the personality of Claudius and on to what his tumultuous years in power reveal about the developing political culture of the early Roman Empire. What precedents set by Augustus were followed? What had to be abandoned? How could a new emperor win the support of key elements of Roman society? This richly illustrated discussion draws on a range of newly discovered documents, exploring events that move far beyond the city of Rome and Italy to Egypt and Judea, Morocco and Britain. Claudius Caesar provides a new perspective not just on Claudius himself, but on all Roman emperors, the Roman Empire, and the nature of empires more generally.

目次

  • Prologue: the Roman Empire in 41 AD
  • Introduction: the problem of Claudius
  • 1. Claudius Caesar
  • 2. A statue in silver
  • 3. Imperial favors
  • 4. Subduing the ocean
  • 5. Lists of peoples and places
  • 6. Caesar-lovers
  • 7. The eight hundredth year of Rome
  • 8. Practical pyramids
  • 9. The burden of government
  • 10. The judgment of Pallas
  • 11. Signaling retreat?
  • 12. The golden predicament.

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