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Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198148593 . Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket spine is sunned. Creasing to back panel of DJ. Very light shelfwear to book else Fine. ; 568 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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- Title The Augustan Aristocracy
- Author Syme, Ronald
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- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Date 1986
- ISBN 9780198148593
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E-274: Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1987. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK. 1987. 568 pgs. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine label present to the spine; NOT ex-library). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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 1st 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…
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