The Flavians
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Flavians, with accompanying maps, glossary and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, coins, inscriptions, papyri and extracts from legal texts, many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access.
- Includes a generous selection of texts in new translations to give the student quick and convenient access to the primary sources needed for their study of the Flavians
- This volume includes maps, a glossary and explanatory notes to help the student better understand the sources
- Written and reviewed by experienced teachers at schools and universities to ensure it provides exactly what students of ancient history require
Product details
July 2023Paperback
9781009382816
425 pages
243 × 170 × 22 mm
0.73kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Sources:
- 1. Section A: the acts of the Arval brothers
- 2. Section B: list of consuls, AD 69 to 96
- 3. Section C: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 66
- 4. Section D: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 67
- 5. Josephus, Jewish War
- 6. Flavian municipal law in Spain
- 7. Juvenal, Satire 4
- Part II. Themes
- 8. Section H
- 9. Section J: imperial family
- 10. Section K: Rome and Italy
- 11. Section L: religion
- 12. Section M: administration of empire
- 13. Section N: war and expansion
- 14 section P: conspiracies, revolts and scandals
- 15. Section Q: popular entertainment
- 16. Section R: literature, arts and culture
- 17. Section S: society
- 18. Section T: panegyric and invective
- 19. Section U: the upper classes.