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In what sense, if at all, was the Roman Republic "restored" in January 27 B.C.?
Title: In what sense, if at all, was the Roman Republic "restored" in January 27 B.C.?
Category: History / European History
Details: Words: 1946 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
In what sense, if at all, was the Roman Republic "restored" in January 27 B.C.?
After his victory at Actium in 31 BC, Octavian became the undisputed ruler of the Roman World. The troubled period of the triumvirs and endless civil war had finally come to an end. Octavian spent the next two years travelling around and organising Rome's Eastern provinces before finally returning to Rome in 29 BC. There he celebrated a magnificent triple triumph on the 13 - 15 of August. No one was to be in any doubt who was in charge. …showed first 75 words of 1946 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1946 total…Res Gestae Divi Augusti", (Ed. by Brunt and Moore)
-Cassius Dio, "Roman History"
Secondary:
-R. Syme, "The Roman Revolution", (1960), O.U.P.
-P. Zanker, "The Power and Images in the Age of Augustus", (2002), Michigan University Press.
-W.K. Lacey, "Augustus and Principate", (1996), Leeds, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd.
-J.W. Rich , J.H.C. Williams, "A New Aureus of Octavian and the Settlement of 28-7 BC", Numismatic Chronicle 159 (1999)
-Fergus Millar, "Triumvirate and Principate", Journal of Roman Studies 1973.
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