Augustus and the Principate: The Evolution of the System (Arca, 35) - Hardcover

Lacey, W. K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 090520591X ISBN 13: 9780905205915

Publisher: Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Updating and enlarging on a lifetime's work on Augustus and his `constitutions' Lacey discusses the process of gradual encroachment whereby Augustus unobtrusively and with minimal opposition accumulated more and more power, whilst outwardly retaining the facade of a republic. Chapters examine the constitutional settlements of 27 and 23 BC, to which Lacey attributes less importance than most, the nature of the role given to Agrippa, the evolution of tribunician power, his religious prominence and dynastic arrangements. This all adds up to a very thorough and incisive study of how under Augustus the republic finally died and the principate was born.

About this title

About the Author

W.K. Lacey was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and read Classics at Cambridge University, where his studies were interrupted by a spell in the Indian Army. Subsequently he was a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before moving to the Chair of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Auckland, New Zealand, of which he is now Emeritus. His best known books are The Family in Classical Greece (1968, reprinted many times) and Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic (1978); and he is a frequent contributor to classical journals, collections and works of reference.

Edition details

• Publisher: Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 090520591X
• ISBN 13: 9780905205915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 245