The emperor Gaius ('Caligula') was assassinated in January A.D.41.
Since he was the last of the Julii, and he left no heir, it seemed
that the dynasty of Caesar and Augustus was finished. Accordingly,
the Republic was restored, but then a coup d'etat by the Praetorian
Guard put Claudius in power . . . the dramatic events of these few
days are a crucial turning-point in Roman history - the moment when
the military basis of the Principate was first made explicit.
Tacitus' account has not survived, and Suetonius and Dio Cassisu
offer no adequate substitute. Fortunately, the Jewish historian
Flavius Josephus chose to insert into his 'Jewish Antiquities' - as
an example of the providence of God - a detailed narrative of the
assassination plot and its aftermath taken from contemporary and
well-informed Roman sources. This new edition of T.P. Wiseman's
acclaimed Death of an Emperor (his translation and commentary of
Josephus' account of Caligula's assassination) includes an updated
bibliography, revised introduction, translation and commentary.
Appendix 1 on the Augustan Palatine has been completely revised to
take account of recent archaeological information.
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