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9780198147312

The Augustan Aristocracy

by Syme, Ronald
  • ISBN13:

    9780198147312

  • ISBN10:

    0198147317

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1989-06-01
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The Nobilitas
The hazards of life
Nobiles in eclipse
Sixteen aristocratic generals
Monarchy and concord
Some perturbations
Stability restored
The resplendent Aemilii
The end
Marcus Lepidus
Two nieces of Augustus
Nero's aunts
Princesses and court ladies
The Junii Silani
Messalla Corvinus
The decease of Messalla
The posterity of Messalla
The last Scipiones
Descendants of Pompeius and Sulla
Descendants of Crassus
Lentulus the Augur
Kinsmen of Seianus
Quinctilius Varus
Piso the Pontifex
The education of an aristocrat
The other pisones
Nobiles in Horace
Fabius Maximus
Nobiles in Velleius
The Apologia for the principate
Appendix: The Consuls, 80 BC-AD 14
Index of persons
Geneological tables
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