Frontmatter -- List of contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Editions -- 1. Pliny’s Family -- 2. Pliny’s Career -- 3. Pliny’s Correspondents -- 4. Pliny’s Practice in Naming Romans -- Indices -- Persons and Deities -- Geographical Names -- Miscellaneous
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
"The ink writing-tablets, first identified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years AD 90-125 (Hadrian's Wall was begun in 122), these unique tablets represent the largest collection of original Roman letters ever found." "The book paints a picture of two Roman auxiliary regiments, the 9th Cohort of Batavians and the 1st Cohort of Tungrians. Among the 400 named officers and personnel, the Batavian prefect Flavius Cerialis features prominently, together with his wife Sulpicia Lepidina, who received the now famous birthday party invitation from her friend Claudia Severa, wife of Cerialis' colleague and fellow hunting enthusiast Aelius Brocchus." "In addition to covering officers and families, friends and colleagues, this book brings to life the ordinary soldiers and their names and duties; military routine, duty-reports, leave and deserters; the supply of food, drink and other goods; merchants and contractors; visitors and entertainment as well as day-to-day enthusiasms as varied as hunting and religion."--Jacket
Kaiser und Philosoph
Anthony Birleys Hadrian-Biographie gilt zu Recht als Standardwerk zur Lebensgeschichte des römischen Kaisers, dessen Mausoleum, die sog. Engelsburg, noch heute eines der prägnantesten Gebäude Roms ist. Aber Hadrian, der vierzigjährig als Adoptivsohn seines Vetters Traian im Jahre 117 n. Chr. auf den Kaiserthron kam, prägte nicht nur das Stadtbild Roms: Auf seinen ausgedehnten Reisen hinterließ er im gesamten Römischen Reich seine Spuren. Die reich bebilderte deutsche Fassung dieses Klassikers berücksichtigt die Forschungsergebnisse der letzten Jahre und entwirft so ein umfassendes und aktuelles Hadrian-Bild. Im Zentrum steht weniger die Politik Hadrians als die Lebensgeschichte eines Mannes, der schon seinen Zeitgenossen ein Rätsel war.
