The Julio-Claudian succession [electronic resource] : reality and perception of the "Augustan model" / edited by A.G.G. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson, A. G. G. (Alisdair G. G.)

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements 349.

Mnemosyne. Supplements, 0169-8958 ; v349

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emperors--Succession--Rome.

Emperors.

Rome--History--Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays considers the challenging questions around the formation, establishment and continuation of the Julio-Claudian principate from the coming to power of Augustus. Augustus laid down the ground rules for a princeps , and the essays explore the subsequent transition of power, and how the succession and subsequent rule manifested itself, even though there was no formal mechanism for such a transfer. These essays fully utilize the extant literary, epigraphic, numismatic and visual record to evaluate Augustus’ “political legacy”. The representation, and retention, of power was a critical issue for the princeps and his subjects, and the contributors provide fresh political and literary analysis of aspects of the principates of Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius and Nero.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / A.G.G. Gibson

Introduction / A.G.G. Gibson

Suetonius and the Succession to Augustus / Josiah Osgood

Perceptions of the Domus Augusta, ad4–24 / Robin Seager

Tiberius and the Invention of Succession / Caroline Vout

The Identity of Drusus: The Making of a Princeps / Jane Bellemore

The Lousy Reputation of Piso / Roger Rees

‘All Things to All Men’: Claudius and the Politics of ad41 / A.G.G. Gibson

Nero Insitiuus: Constructing Neronian Identity in the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia / Emma Buckley

Nero Caesar and the Half-Baked Principate / John Drinkwater

Index / A.G.G. Gibson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85433-3

90-04-23584-1

OCLC:

820036673

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004235847 DOI