Robin Seager

Tiberius

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robin Seager traces the life of Tiberius from his birth in Rome in 42 bc during the death throes of the Republic, through his military career and reign as Emperor, to his death in ad 37. Tiberius' complex character is the key to understanding his reign. Challenging the common ancient view of Tiberius as a consummate hypocrite, Seager portrays him instead as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power, who lost his grasp of reality as his fears of conspiracy and assassination spiralled out of control, and who finally resorted to ruling by terror. The second edition of this highly readable biography contains a substantial afterword, reconsidering various questions and discussing important new evidence that has come to light since the book was first published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9781405115285
• ISBN-10: 1405115289
• Artikelnr.: 22149237

Autorenporträt

Robin Seager is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Pompey: A Political Biography (1979), Ammianus Marcellinus: Seven Studies in His Language and Thought (1986) and Pompey the Great (Blackwell, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates.

List of Maps.

Preface to Second Edition.

Preface to First Edition.

Chronological Table.

Abbreviations.

Maps.

1 Tiberius' Childhood: The Political Background.

2 Tiberius and Augustus.

3 The Accession of Tiberius.

4 Germanicus and Drusus.

5 Tiberius as Princeps, ad 14-26.

6 Seianus.

7 The Last Years.

Conclusion.

Afterword.

Stemma.

The Sources.

Bibliography.

Additional Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

"This second edition is a welcome revision of the excellent Tiberius ... The book has much to commend it ... Undergraduates will find it an excellent resource, and one not beyond sixth-form students." Journal of Classics Teaching