Age of Augustus.
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- 9781405182034
- 937/.07092 B
- DG279 .E2513 2007
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Maps -- 1: Augustus' Career in Overview: The Res Gestae -- 2: Modest Origins, Powerful Relatives -- 3: Seizing Power and Legalizing Usurpation -- 4: The Triumvirate: Dictatorship Sanctioned by Law -- 5: The Path to Formal Legitimation as a Ruler -- 6: The Final Battles for Power: Actium and Alexandria -- 7: A New Political Order: The Principate Takes Shape -- 8: The Principate Develops Further -- 9: The Princeps and the Roman Elite -- 10: The Practical Implementation of Political Power: Governing the Empire -- 11: Shaping the Lives of Men -- 12: A Standing Army -- 13: War and Peace: Expanding the Empire -- 14: Rome, the Augustan City -- 15: The Quest for Political Continuity: The Succession -- 16: Augustus' Death and the Future of the Empire -- Time Line -- Appendix: The Res Gestae of Augustus -- The Res Gestae of Augustus by Sarolta A. Takács -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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