The Oxford History Of The Classical World

A Roman military census: detail of a relief from the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (actually the base of a statue-grou ...

Corner Of A Painted Bedroom In A Villa At Boscoreale, near Pompeii (mid first century B.C.), a classic example of the Second Sty ...

Rome The Founding Of The Empire (By David Stockton) ...

Map 9. The Roman Empire (Western Provinces) ...

Map 9. The Roman Empire (Central And Eastern Provinces) The future Emperor Augustus was born at Rome in September 63 B.C. His fa ...

his troops "were not ready to shed more blood for him and preferred Octavian. Though his life was spared, Lepidus was stripped o ...

In my sixth and seventh consulships [28/7 B.C.], after I had stamped out the civil wars, and at a time when by universal consent ...

Wall Of The Temple Of Rome And Augustus At Ankara, showing the Res Gestae. Augustus' propagandist account of his achievements wa ...

Map 10. The Growth Of Roman Rule It is plain that the ciuilis princeps Augustus understood the great importance of preserving an ...

make haste slowly'. He appreciated, consciously or instinctively, that to close the wide rift which had opened up between loyalt ...

least, ill-advised. It was only in the most trivial sense that Senate or People had invested Tiberius with 'such great discretio ...

experience and involvement not automatically guaranteed by the Augustan system. At some time before 4 B.C. Augustus had institut ...

Relief Of The Imperial Family On The Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), Rome (13-9 B.C.). This detail is thought to s ...

were regularly offered to heaven for his safety, each new year and the various anniversaries of his birth and achievements were ...

ancestors and their solid municipal tradition at Velitrae. Legislation was passed to visit severe penalties on adultery, agents ...

city now approaching a million inhabitants, a Tiber Conservancy Board to dredge and embank the river, and proper provision and s ...

The next princeps, Gaius, came naked to empire, so that, as Dio (59. 3) observed, 'he had to be voted in a single day all the pr ...

Reconstruction Of The Villa Jovis On Capri, viewed from the north-east. According to Tacitus, Tiki owned twelve villas on the is ...

Modern assessments of Claudius' principate vary widely. For some he was a strong ruler with a clear sense of direction, who had ...

longer seen as merely a dissident sect within Judaism, the innocent scapegoats. Understandably, men steeled themselves to the pe ...