LoginCompendium of Roman History. Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Loeb Classical Library)
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Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BCE–37 CE), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece and Asia Minor, and later, from 4 CE to 12 or 13, as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. He was quaestor in 7 CE, praetor in 15. He wrote in two books 'Roman Histories', a summary of Roman history from the fall of Troy to 29 CE. As he approached his own times he becomes much fuller in his treatment, especially between the death of Caesar in 44 BCE and that of Augustus in 14 CE. His work has useful concise essays on Roman colonies and provinces and some effective comp
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 17 December 1924
ISBN-10 : 0674991680 | ISBN-13: 9780674991682
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Release date: 17 December 1924
ISBN-10 : 0674991680 | ISBN-13: 9780674991682
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