Andrew Pettinger

The Republic in Danger

Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume proposes a new model for understanding the end of Augustus' reign and the succession of Tiberius in the years 6 BC to AD 16. Focusing on Drusus Libo's role in an alliance between the enemies of Tiberius, Pettinger offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle between Tiberius and the supporters of Augustus' grandsons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780199601745
• ISBN-10: 0199601747
• Artikelnr.: 35053638

Autorenporträt

Andrew Pettinger is currently an Associate of the Classics and Ancient History Department at the University of Sydney and works as a federal public servant.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: An Urgent Summons and a Terrible Charge
2: The Treatment of an Enemy
3: The Adoption of Agrippa Postumus and the Friends of Gaius Caesar
4: Growing Pains
5: The Buck Stops Where?
6: Augustus Final Arrangements
7: The exiles of the younger Julia, D. Junius Silanus, and Ovid
8: Novus Principatus: an Imperial Co-operative
9: The Hesitation of Tiberius
10: "Did You Hear About Agrippa?"
11: Germanicus: Successor to Tiberius or Augustus?
12: Alternative Government
Appendix 1: A Prosopography of M. Scribonius Drusus Libo
Apeendix 2: Family Trees
Appendix 3: Timeline
Bibliography