Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire
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The story of Claudius has been often told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far shrewder, if still frustrated, politician. Josiah Osgood shifts the focus off the personality of Claudius and on to what his tumultuous years in power reveal about the developing political culture of the early Roman Empire. What precedents set by Augustus were followed? What...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521708257
ISBN13:9780521708258
Release Date:December 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:374 Pages
Weight:1.31 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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