Death of Caligula Flavius Josephus
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Biografisk notat
T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Political Life (1985), and Remembering the Roman People (2009). And on the study of Roman historiography, and from there to the myth-history of early Rome: see Clio’s Cosmetics (1979), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit, and Unwritten Rome (2008)Death of Caligula Flavius Josephus
Reviews'A guide to this significant material has long been needed and this gap has now been filled by Wiseman's admirable book. He offers a translation that is free and idiomatic - a good decision, since Jospehus' anacoloutha and corruptions made a literal rendering almost unreadable, even where the general drift is clear. [ . . .] This is a useful book, by someone who knows his topic well. It should go a long way towards making senior students recognise the historical interest of a chapter of Roman history that they might have tended to regard only as lurid and sensational.'<br />
Anthony A. Barrett, <i>Classical Review</i>, Vol. XLII No. 2
'In a concise and readable way, W. walks through the early imperial development of the [Augustan Palatine] in light of recent archaeology, locating the original houses of Augustus and Tiberius to recreate the scene at the time of Gaius. This may not be indispensable for the foregoing study, but it is a welcome bonus in the new edition...W.’s book remains as valuable as it always was. Students of ancient history in all subdisciplines should be pleased that it is available again, and with a particularly useful update in the new appendix.'
<p>Steve Mason, <i>Histos 10</i></p>
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
- Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae XIX 1-273
- I Preface
- II The Conspiracy
- III The Assassination
- IV Panic on the Palatine
- V The Republic Restored
- VI Obituary
- VII The Claudius Coup
- Note on the Text
- Commentary
- Appendices:
- 1 The Augustan Palatine
- 2 Cluvius Rufus
- Index of Names
Reviews'A guide to this significant material has long been needed and this gap has now been filled by Wiseman's admirable book. He offers a translation that is free and idiomatic - a good decision, since Jospehus' anacoloutha and corruptions made a literal rendering almost unreadable, even where the general drift is clear. [ . . .] This is a useful book, by someone who knows his topic well. It should go a long way towards making senior students recognise the historical interest of a chapter of Roman history that they might have tended to regard only as lurid and sensational.'<br />
Anthony A. Barrett, <i>Classical Review</i>, Vol. XLII No. 2
'In a concise and readable way, W. walks through the early imperial development of the [Augustan Palatine] in light of recent archaeology, locating the original houses of Augustus and Tiberius to recreate the scene at the time of Gaius. This may not be indispensable for the foregoing study, but it is a welcome bonus in the new edition...W.’s book remains as valuable as it always was. Students of ancient history in all subdisciplines should be pleased that it is available again, and with a particularly useful update in the new appendix.'
<p>Steve Mason, <i>Histos 10</i></p>
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
- Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae XIX 1-273
- I Preface
- II The Conspiracy
- III The Assassination
- IV Panic on the Palatine
- V The Republic Restored
- VI Obituary
- VII The Claudius Coup
- Note on the Text
- Commentary
- Appendices:
- 1 The Augustan Palatine
- 2 Cluvius Rufus
- Index of Names