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Res gestae divi Augusti: Compendium of Roman History

Door Velleius Paterculus

Categorie	Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer	#422085-YF13
Titel	Res gestae divi Augusti: Compendium of Roman History
Auteur	Paterculus, Velleius
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0674991680
ISBN13	9780674991682
Taal	Engels, Overig
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered red cloth, dust jacket, translated by Frederick W. Shipley, XX,431,(3) pages, reprinted, text in Latin and English, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 152.
Samenvatting	An imperial historian and an emperor's history. Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BC-AD 37), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, and Asia Minor, and later, from AD 4 to 12 or 13, as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. He was quaestor in AD 7, praetor in 15. He wrote in two books "Roman Histories," a summary of Roman history from the fall of Troy to AD 29. As he approached his own times he becomes much fuller in his treatment, especially between the death of Caesar in 44 BC and that of Augustus in AD 14. 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 (AD 13-14) the emperor Augustus wr... (Lees verder)ote 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 honors; his benefactions to the empire, to the people, and to the soldiers; and his services as a soldier and as an administrator.
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