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EBOOK 69 AD:The Year of Four Emperors

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199923694
EAN: 42A67E52EB
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Stron: 336
Data wydania: 2005
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The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most        chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of        assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms        about occupying the city of Rome, and of ambitious men who seized power only to lose        it, one after another.In 69 AD, Gwyn Morgan offers a fresh look at this period,        based on two considerations to which insufficient attention has been paid in the        past. First, that we need to unravel rather than cherry-pick between the conflicting        accounts of Tacitus, Plutarch and Suetonius, our three main sources of information.          And second, that the role of the armies, as distinct from that of their commanders,        has too often been exaggerated. The result is a remarkably accurate and insightful        narrative history, filled with colorful portraits of the leading participants and        new insights into the nature of the Roman military Morgan ranges from the suicide of        Nero in June 68 to the triumph of Vespasian in December 69. In between, three other        emperors hold power. We meet Galba, old, tightfisted and conservative, who was        declared emperor in June 68 and assassinated in January 69. Otho, once Nero's boon        companion, who was responsible for murdering Galba, seized power in a coup in Rome        in January 69 and, to everybody's surprise, committed suicide three months later in        a vain attempt to end the civil wars. Vitellius, as indolent as he was extravagant,        who was put forward by two ambitious lieutenants, recognized by the senate in Rome        once they heard of Otho's death in April, and cut down by Vespasian's partisans in        the last days of December. And then there is Vespasian, the candidate who looked        least likely to succeed, but (according to Tacitus) was still the first to be        improved by becoming emperor.A strikingly vivid account of ancient Rome, 69 AD is an        original and compelling account of one of the best known but perhaps least        understood periods in all Roman history.

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