The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus

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Penguin, 7 lug 1987 - 368 pagine
Following Rome's long road to peace after decades of civil war, Cassius Dio provides the fullest account of the reign of the first emperor in Books 50 through 60 of his Roman History.

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Introduction
1
Bibliographical Note
30
Acknowledgements
31
A Note on the Text
32
THE ROMAN HISTORY
35
Notes
259
Chronological Table
298
List of Consuls
308
Germany
321
SouthEast and Western Anatolia
322
The Middle East
324
NorthWestern Africa
326
Egypt
327
The Balkans
328
South Russia
329
Plan of Rome
331

Key to PlaceNames
311
Italy
319
NorthWest Europe
320
Spain
332
Index
333
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John Carter retired from a Senior Lectureship at Royal Holloway college, University of London, in 1992. He collaborated with Ian Scott-Kilvert on Cassius Dio's The Roman History (1987) for Penguin Classics, and other published work includes a history of Augustus' rise to power, The Battle of Actium (1970), and editions of Suetonius' life of Augustus, Divis Augustus (1982), and of Julius Caesar's own account of his war with Pompey, Civil War (2 vols., 1991 and 1993).

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