THE AUGUSTAN ARISTOCRACY Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 1986

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Year of publication

1986

Author

Syme, Sir Ronald

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Edition

First Edition

Keyword

Principate Roman Empire Roman History Emperors Political Science

Cover description

Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0198148593

First edition

Yes

Description

Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket spine is sunned. Creasing to back panel of DJ. Very light shelfwear to book else Fine. ; 568 pages; While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B. C. And forward to the reign of Nero in search of documentation of the Augustan aristocracy. Syme draws particularly on the Annals of Tacitus to cover 150 years in the history of Roman families, chronicling their splendor and success, as well as their subsequent fall within the embrace of the dynasty.