Caesar's legacy : civil war and the emergence of the Roman Empire

Josiah Osgood

In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled the old Republic, took on the new name 'Augustus', and ruled forty years more with his equally remarkable wife Livia. Caesar's Legacy grippingly retells the story of Augustus' rise to power by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. During this violent period citizens of Rome and provincials came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses they endured throughout the long years of fighting.

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In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled the old Republic, took on the new name 'Augustus', and ruled forty years more with his equally remarkable wife Livia. Caesar's Legacy grippingly retells the story of Augustus' rise to power by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. During this violent period citizens of Rome and provincials came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses they endured throughout the long years of fighting.

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[目次]

  • Introduction: missing years
  • 1. Soldier and a statesman
  • 2. Fights for freedom
  • 3. Land appropriations
  • 4. From discord to harmony?
  • 5. Struggle for survival
  • 6. The new nobility
  • 7. Sense of promise
  • 8. Out of chaos consent.

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[目次]

  • Introduction: missing years
  • 1. Soldier and a statesman
  • 2. Fights for freedom
  • 3. Land appropriations
  • 4. From discord to harmony?
  • 5. Struggle for survival
  • 6. The new nobility
  • 7. Sense of promise
  • 8. Out of chaos consent.

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この本の情報

書名 Caesar's legacy : civil war and the emergence of the Roman Empire
著作者等 Osgood, Josiah
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2006
ページ数 xii, 440 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780521671774
9780521855822
NCID BA76750384
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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