Augustus and the Principate: The Evolution of the System

by W.K. Lacey

Updating and enlarging on a lifetime's work on Augustus and his constitutions' Lacey discusses the process of gradual encroachment whereby Augustus unobtrusively and with minimal opposition accumulated more and more power, whilst outwardly retaining the facade of a republic. Chapters examine the constitutional settlements of 27 and 23 BC, to which Lacey attributes less importance than most, the nature of the role given to Agrippa, the evolution of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 090520591X
• ISBN13: 9780905205915
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"