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Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC - AD 14) - Evidence Without Hindsight (Hardcover)
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Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC - AD 14) - Evidence Without Hindsight (Hardcover)
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Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival
pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and
Cicero (in 44 and 43BC) hardly one word has been reliably
transmitted to us from even the two most powerful opponents of
Octavian: Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius - except through coinage
and the occasional inscription. The coins are an antidote to a
widespread fault in modern approaches: the idea, from hindsight,
that the Roman Republic was doomed, that the rise of
Octavian-Augustus to monarchy was inevitable, and that
contemporaries might have sensed as much. In this book eleven new
essays explore the coinage of Rome's competing dynasts. Julius
Caesar's coins, and those of his 'son' Octavian-Augustus, are
studied. But similar and respectful attention is given to the
issues of their opponents: Cato the Younger and Q. Metellus Scipio,
Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius, Q. Cornificius and others. A
shared aim is to understand mentalities, the forecasts current, in
an age of rare insecurity as the superpower of the Mediterranean
faced, and slowly recovered from, division and ruin.
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