The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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 ...

Vespasian (A.D. 69-79), the first Roman Emperor not to have emerged from the old urban aristocracy. Born in A.D. 9 to an equestr ...

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The Arts Of Government (By Nicholas Purcell) The Principate from Nero to Gallienus In A.D. 193 the military and political cris ...

The new cultural homogeneity found one of its most splendid expressions in the lavish beautification, from Vespasian to Antoninu ...

The concern of the Emperors for the provinces is a reflection of the new homogeneity of the Empire, not a sign of crisis. Disord ...

Bust Of Commodus In The Guise Of Hercules. The foppish face of the last Antonine Emperor (A.D. 180-92) contrasts bizarrely with ...

threat which had not been seen for generations, and when the weak Parthian state had evolved into the ferociously effective Sass ...

The City Magistrate at Home and Abroad Rome had from the earliest times enjoyed very close contacts with the Greek world, and ha ...

Inscription In Honour Of C. Minicius Italus at Aquileia (A.D. 105), the record of a distinguished equestrian career in the imper ...