@article{436421,
      recid = {436421},
      author = {Osgood, Josiah,},
      title = {Claudius Caesar : image and power in the early Roman  empire /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {xiii, 357 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"The story of Claudius has been often told before. Ancient  writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace  insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far  shrewder, if still frustrated, politician. Josiah Osgood  shifts the focus off the personality of Claudius and on to  what his tumultuous years in power reveal about the  developing political culture of the early Roman Empire.  What precedents set by Augustus were followed? What had to  be abandoned? How could a new emperor win the support of  key elements of Roman society? This richly illustrated  discussion draws on a range of newly discovered documents,  exploring events that move far beyond the city of Rome and  Italy to Egypt and Judea, Morocco and Britain. Claudius  Caesar opens up a new perspective not just on Claudius  himself, but all Roman emperors, the Roman Empire, and the  nature of empires more generally"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436421},
}