Appian, Cassius Dio and the Roman Republic

Rich, J. W.

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“…RE XII 2073 (L. Wickert); Syme (1958) 408;Miller (1959) ad loc. ; Witte (1963) 12;Brunt (1982) 238; Rich (1989) 100, (2012) 37; Geisthardt and Gildenhard (2019) 271-2. 43 Ferrettus (1541: ad loc.)…”

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“…4-1.1; Rich and Williams [1999];Rich [2012] 89-105); Tac. Ann.1.2.1; Pelham (1888 Pelham ( ) 32-36 = (1911 Haverfield (1912) 197; Vervaet (2010) 130-1;Rich (2012) 47.…”

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“…4-1.1; Rich and Williams [1999];Rich [2012] 89-105); Tac. Ann.1.2.1; Pelham (1888 Pelham ( ) 32-36 = (1911 Haverfield (1912) 197; Vervaet (2010) 130-1;Rich (2012) 47. The resumption of the consulship was a strategic move back to the ostentatious possession of a traditional magistracy and away from the controversial extraordinary command of the Triumvirate -the mirror image of the young Augustus' resignation of his first consulship of 43 in preference for the superior command of the Triumvirate (cf.Bleicken [2015] 117; for a different view of the value of the consulship to Augustus see…”

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The Return of the King?

Malloch

2022

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Tacitus opens the Annals with a succinct sketch of the constitutional history of Rome from the kings to Augustus (1.1.1). The common interpretation holds that Tacitus adopts a cyclical view of this history which identifies the supremacy of Augustus with kingship, and chooses his vocabulary of power primarily with stylistic variation in mind. The terms employed, princeps and imperium, are also held to announce a major interpretative preoccupation of the Annals, the gap between the 'appearance' and the 'reality' of power under the principate. This essay will demonstrate that these interpretations of the structure and language of the preface are misleading. Tacitus offers a sequential view of Roman constitutional history that casts Augustus as a pivot between the tradition stretching back to the foundation of the city and a new phase which he identifies in its own terms, not as a reversion to kingship. The introduction of the motif of 'appearance v. reality' comes not with the language of princeps and imperium, but at 1.2.1. An appendix analyses the use of the term principatus in Velleius Paterculus and Tacitus.

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“…4-1.1; Rich and Williams [1999];Rich [2012] 89-105); Tac. Ann.1.2.1; Pelham (1888 Pelham ( ) 32-36 = (1911 Haverfield (1912) 197; Vervaet (2010) 130-1;Rich (2012) 47.…”

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