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T. P. Wiseman

The House of Augustus

A Historical Detective Story

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Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14 AD), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word palace originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates that Augustus was never an emperor in any meaningful sense of the word, that he never had a palace, and that the so-called Casa di Augusto excavated on the Palatine was a lavish aristocratic house destroyed by the young Caesar in order to build the temple of Apollo. Exploring the Palatine from its first occupation to the present, T. P. Wiseman proposes a reexamination of the Augustan A… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-18007-6
  • EAN: 9780691180076
  • Produktnummer: 29223864
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H21.2 cm x B26.1 cm x D2.9 cm 856 g
  • Abbildungen: 70 b/w illus.
  • Gewicht: 856
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


T. P. Wiseman is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. His many books include The Roman Audience and Julius Caesar.

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