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Lactor Series 17: The Age of Augustus

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Lactor Series 17: The Age of Augustus
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  • ISBN: 9780903625302
  • Price: $95.00
  • Author: M. Cooley others
  • Published by: LACTORs
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  • Stock: Limited stock available at Abacus Books.

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The volume includes a very wide range of material in translation for the study of Augustus - excluding Suetonius, Augustus and Cassius Dio. Specialist contributors include Alison Cooley (Inscriptions), Jane Gardner (Legal sources), Stephen Harrison (Poetry), Barbara Levick (Tacitus & Velleius), Jonathan Williams (Coins). Part I consists of major sources presented with notes: Res Gestae; List of Consuls 31 BC - AD 14; Julian Calendar; Livy - summaries of the Augustan books; Velleius Paterculus, 2.88-124; Tacitus, Annals 1.1-15; an extensive selection of Augustan poetry (85 pages). Part II presents 488 further sources (literary, epigraphic, numismatic and legal) with notes, arranged by themes into the following 10 sections: From Triumvirate to Principate; Imperial Family; Rome and Italy; Religion; Administration of Empire; War and Expansion; Conspiracies and Scandals; Maecenas and the Arts; Legislation; Roman Society. The volume includes Concordances, Indexes of Persons, Places and Themes, 3 maps, 4 family trees of Augustus at different dates in his principate, and 40 coins, fully illustrated. All set texts for the Augustus modules at Ancient History AS and A2 are included. - NETT PRICED TITLE

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