Compendium of Roman history ; Res Gestae Divi Augusti / Velleius Paterculus ; with an English translation by Frederick W. Shipley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Velleius Paterculus, approximately 19 B.C.-approximately 30 A.D., author.

Contributor:

Shipley, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1871-1945, translator.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 152.

Loeb Classical Library ; 152

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.

Rome.

Rome--History.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Digital Loeb.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Velleius Paterculus lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BCE-37 CE) and wrote a summary of Roman history from the fall of Troy to 29 CE. In 13-14 CE Augustus wrote an account of his public life, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, the best preserved copy of which was engraved on the walls of his temple at Ancyra (Ankara). Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BCE-37 CE), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece and Asia Minor, and later, from 4 CE to 12 or 13, as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. He was quaestor in 7 CE, praetor in 15. He wrote in two books Roman Histories, a summary of Roman history from the fall of Troy to 29 CE. As he approached his own times he becomes much fuller in his treatment, especially between the death of Caesar in 44 BCE and that of Augustus in 14 CE. His work has useful concise essays on Roman colonies and provinces and some effective compressed portrayals of characters. Res Gestae Divi Augusti. In his 76th year (13 CE-14) the emperor Augustus wrote a dignified account of his public life and work of which the best preserved copy (with a Greek translation) was engraved by the Galatians on the walls of the temple of Augustus at Ancyra (Ankara). It is a unique document giving short details of his public offices and honours; his benefactions to the empire, to the people, and to the soldiers; and his services as a soldier and as an administrator.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Velleius Paterculus, approximately 19 B.C.-approximately 30 A.D. Res Gestae Divi Augusti.

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Print version: Velleius Paterculus, approximately 19 B.C.-approximately 30 A.D. Compendium of roman history. Res Gestae Divi Augusti.

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