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The Augustean Aristocracy

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Oxford University Press, 1989 - History - 504 pages
While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B.C. and forward to the reign of Nero in search of documentation of the Augustan aristocracy. Syme draws particularly on the Annals of Tacitus to cover 150 years in the history of Roman families, chronicling their splendor and success, as well as their subsequent fall within the embrace of the dynasty.
  

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Selected pages

Contents

The Nobilitas
1
The Hazards of Life
15
Nobiles in Eclipse
44
Sixteen Aristocratic Consuls
50
Monarchy and Concord
64
Some Perturbations
82
Stability Restored
93
The Resplendent Aemilii
104
Descendants of Pompeius and Sulla
255
Descendants of Crassus
270
Lentulus the Augur
284
Kinsmen of Seianus
300
Quinctilius Varus
313
Piso the Pontifex
329
The Education of an Aristocrat
346
The Other Pisones
367

The End of L Aemilius Paullus
115
Marcus Lepidus
128
Two Nieces of Augustus
141
Neros Aunts
155
Princesses and Court Ladies
168
TheJunii Silani
188
Messalla Corvinus
200
The Decease of Messalla
217
The Posterity of Messalla
227
The Last Scipiones
244
Nobiles in Horace
382
Fabius Maximus
403
Nobiles in Velleius
421
The Apologia for the Principate
439
THE CONSULS 80 BCAD 14
455
BIBLIOGRAPHY
459
INDEX OF PERSONS
470
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
505
Copyright

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References from web pages

The Augustan Aristocracy by Ronald Syme at Questia Online Library
While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility ...
www.questia.com/ library/ book/ the-augustan-aristocracy-by-ronald-syme.jsp

JSTOR: The Augustan Aristocracy
In treating the Augustan aristocracy, Syme (following Stein) en- larges Gelzer's definition, including descendants of triumviral and Augus- tan consuls ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0031-8299(198922)43%3A2%3C180%3ATAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.36
To Syme himself, in The Augustan Aristocracy, the princeps succeed in part because he skillfully managed the participation of the upper classes in the ...
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ bmcr/ 2004/ 2004-09-36.html

Scholia Reviews ns 8 (1999) 8. tp Wiseman, Roman Drama and Roman ...
The later works, and Wiseman focuses upon The Augustan Aristocracy in particular (pp. 139-51), are marked heavily by inference and assumption. ...
www.und.ac.za/ und/ classics/ 99-08wis.html

The Praetorian prefecture under the Julio-Claudians – path to ...
[21] Ronald Syme, The Augustan aristocracy (Oxford, 1986), 301 note 11 [22] Dio, 60.23.3 [23] Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939), 358; Syme, ...
www.jerryfielden.com/ essays/ praetorians.htm

David Wishart: Ovid (1995)
B. Ronald Syme, The Augustan aristocracy (Oxford, 1986), S. 15–31, ... Vgl. auch Syme, The Augustan aristocracy, S. 115–127, der davon ausgeht, daß Aemilius ...
www.hist-rom.de/ rez/ wishovid.html

Scribonia – Wikipedia
Syme, The Augustan aristocracy, S. 256. Die Verwandtschaft findet sich auch bei Tacitus, Annales 2, 27, wo aber nicht erwähnt wird, ob Scribonia noch gelebt ...
de.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Scribonia

Луций Элий Сеян (около 20 г. до н.э. — 31 г. н.э.)
134—145; R Syme, “The Augustan Aristocracy”, 1989, pp. 304—308). В 1 г. до н.э. — 4 г. н.э. сопровождал Гая Цезаря в поездке на Восток (Tac. Ann....
ancientrome.ru/ genealogy/ person.htm?p=405

Scribonia - Wikipedia
Vgl. R. Syme, The Augustan aristocracy, Oxford, 1986, p. 256. De verwantschap wordt ook vermeldt in Tacitus, Annales II 27, waarbij echter niet wordt gezegd ...
nl.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Scribonia

Roma_syllabus
Syme, R., The Augustan Aristocracy. Alfoldi, G., The Social History of Rome. Cameron, A., The Later Roman Empire. Petit, P., La paix romaine ...
www.geocities.com/ SoHo/ Coffeehouse/ 2857/ Roma_syllabus.htm

About the author (1989)

Ronald Syme is at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Bibliographic information

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TitleThe Augustean Aristocracy
Clarendon Paperbacks
AuthorRonald Syme
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, 1989
ISBN0198147317, 9780198147312
Length504 pages
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