000436421 000__ 04354cam\a2200433\a\4500 000436421 001__ 436421 000436421 005__ 20210513152359.0 000436421 008__ 100818s2011\\\\enkab\\\\b\\\\001\0deng\\ 000436421 010__ $$a 2010035123 000436421 019__ $$a693517117 000436421 020__ $$a9780521881814 000436421 020__ $$a0521881811 000436421 020__ $$a9780521708258$$q(paperback) 000436421 020__ $$a0521708257$$q(paperback) 000436421 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn644692651 000436421 035__ $$a436421 000436421 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dUKM$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dBWK$$dCDX$$dBWX$$dIUL$$dCOO$$dPUL$$dUBY$$dUKMGB$$dS3O$$dMIX$$dYUS$$dIOJ 000436421 042__ $$apcc 000436421 043__ $$ae------$$aff-----$$aaw----- 000436421 049__ $$aISEA 000436421 05000 $$aDG284$$b.O84 2011 000436421 08200 $$a937/.07092$$aB$$222 000436421 1001_ $$aOsgood, Josiah,$$d1974- 000436421 24510 $$aClaudius Caesar :$$bimage and power in the early Roman empire /$$cJosiah Osgood. 000436421 260__ $$aCambridge ;$$aNew York :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2011. 000436421 300__ $$axiii, 357 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm 000436421 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 322-350) and index. 000436421 5050_ $$aPrologue: The Roman Empire in AD 41 -- Introduction: The problem of Claudius -- Claudius Caesar -- A statue in silver -- Imperial favors -- Subduing the ocean -- Lists of peoples and places -- Caesar-lovers -- The eight-hundredth year of Rome -- Practical pyramids -- The burden of government -- The judgment of Pallas -- Signaling retreat? -- The golden predicament. 000436421 520__ $$a"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"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000436421 520__ $$a"Throughout his childhood and early adult years, Claudius never could have expected to become ruler of the Roman world. Born in 10 bc to Drusus, Augustus' stepson, and Antonia, Augustus' niece, he had not a drop of the first emperor's blood in him. But that was not his disqualification, for Claudius' own older brother, Germanicus, was considered a possible successor (Fig. 1). When, in ad 4, Augustus finally adopted Tiberius, gave him new powers, and made him his heir, he required Tiberius first to adopt Germanicus; both thereby gained the crucial name "Caesar" and entered the Julian family.1 And after the premature death of Germanicus in ad 19, it was Germanicus' own young sons, including Gaius Caesar - otherwise known as Caligula - rather than Claudius, who came to be seen as possible successors to Tiberius.2 The obstacle for Claudius was that as a child he suffered from a nervous disorder now diagnosed as dystonia - symptoms mentioned included irregular motor movements, a stammer, and drooling - and was thus deemed unsuitable for public life.3 His own mother, it could be claimed, liked to call him "a freak of a man, not finished by Nature but only begun."4 She, along with the rest of rest of the family, finally decided, when Germanicus was consul in ad 12, that Claudius was not to serve in any magistracy or to join the Senate"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000436421 60000 $$aClaudius,$$cEmperor of Rome,$$d10 B.C.-54 A.D. 000436421 650_0 $$aEmperors$$zRome$$vBiography. 000436421 650_0 $$aPolitical culture$$zRome. 000436421 650_0 $$aDystonia$$zRome. 000436421 651_0 $$aRome$$xHistory$$yClaudius, 41-54. 000436421 85200 $$bgen$$hDG284$$i.O84$$i2011 000436421 85642 $$3Cover image$$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/81814/cover/9780521881814.jpg 000436421 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2010035123-b.html 000436421 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2010035123-d.html 000436421 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2010035123-t.html 000436421 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:436421$$pGLOBAL_SET 000436421 980__ $$aBIB 000436421 980__ $$aBOOK