Andrew Burnett, Anton Powell Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC - AD 14): Evidence Without Hindsight 9781910589762

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Автор: Andrew Burnett, Anton Powell
Название: Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC - AD 14): Evidence Without Hindsight
ISBN: 9781910589762
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Европы

История классических цивилизаций древности

ISBN-10: 1910589764
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 300
Вес: 0.26 кг.
Дата издания: 23.12.2020
Серия: The roman world
Язык: English
Размер: 165 x 164 x 31
Ключевые слова: Classical history / classical civilisation,European history, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Coins, Currency & Medals,HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted to us from even the two most powerful opponents of Octavian: Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius – except through coinage and the occasional inscription. The coins are an antidote to a widespread fault in modern approaches: the idea, from hindsight, that the Roman Republic was doomed, that the rise of Octavian-Augustus to monarchy was inevitable, and that contemporaries might have sensed as much.Ancient works in other genres skilfully encouraged such hindsight. Augustus in the Res Gestae, and Virgil in Georgics and Aeneid, sought to flatten the history of the period, and largely to efface Octavians defeated rivals. But the latters coins in precious metal were not easily recovered and suppressed by Authority. They remain for scholars to revalue. In our own age, when public untruthfulness about history is increasingly accepted – or challenged, we may value anew the discipline of searching for other, ancient, voices which ruling discourse has not quite managed to silence.In this book eleven new essays explore the coinage of Romes competing dynasts. Julius Caesars coins, and those of his `son Octavian-Augustus, are studied. But similar and respectful attention is given to the issues of their opponents: Cato the Younger and Q. Metellus Scipio, Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius, Q. Cornificius and others.A shared aim is to understand mentalities, the forecasts current, in an age of rare insecurity as the superpower of the Mediterranean faced, and slowly recovered from, division and ruin.
Дополнительное описание: Middle Eastern history|European history: the Romans|Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items

Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC - AD 14): Evidence Without Hindsight, Andrew Burnett, Anton Powell