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Coins of the roman revolution (49bc-ad14) : evidence without hindsight

Title
Coins of the roman revolution (49bc-ad14) : evidence without hindsight / Edited By Andrew Burnett & Anton Powell.
Publication
  • Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Burnett, Andrew (Andrew M.)
  • Powell, Anton
Description
xvii, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The long revolutionary age, which culminated in the autocracy of Octavian-Augustus, is one of Roman history's most richly documented periods - and most misrepresented. From Roman to modern times, hindsight has dominated. The theme of Augustus' rise overshadows all. His rivals are commonly defamed (Antony), belittled (Sextus Pompeius), or eclipsed to the point of being barely recognisable (Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cornificius). Seldom in history has the mentality of historians so diverged from the attitudes of contemporaries, the Romans and provincials - all of them - who did not know that Octavian would win, let alone that his regime would survive for decades.0This work privileges a class of neglected evidence which colourfully expresses the uncertainty, and the hopes, not of historians but of contemporaries: coinage. Here an international team of young scholars examine the ideals expressed, and the fears reflected, in the coins issued by warring chiefs during Rome's, and the provinces', long conflicts. There results a subtle and lively characterisation of individuals and ideas which even Augustan ideology could never efface.
Subject
  • 265 B.C.-14 A.D
  • Coins, Roman
  • Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
  • Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C
  • Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Call Number
JFE 21-3769
ISBN
  • 9781910589762
  • 1910589764
LCCN
2020445948
OCLC
1079203496
Title
Coins of the roman revolution (49bc-ad14) : evidence without hindsight / Edited By Andrew Burnett & Anton Powell.
Publisher
Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes index.
Chronological Term
265 B.C.-14 A.D.
Added Author
Burnett, Andrew (Andrew M.), editor.
Powell, Anton, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 21-3769
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