The Flavians

A sourcebook on the Flavians, with a range of translated primary texts to support ancient history students.

M. G. L. Cooley (Edited and translated by)

9781009382816, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 June 2023

425 pages
27 x 18 x 2.7 cm, 0.702 kg

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Flavians, with accompanying maps, glossary and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, coins, inscriptions, papyri and extracts from legal texts, many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access.

Part I. Sources: 1. Section A: the acts of the Arval brothers
2. Section B: list of consuls, AD 69 to 96
3. Section C: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 66
4. Section D: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 67
5. Josephus, Jewish War
6. Flavian municipal law in Spain
7. Juvenal, Satire 4
Part II. Themes
8. Section H
9. Section J: imperial family
10. Section K: Rome and Italy
11. Section L: religion
12. Section M: administration of empire
13. Section N: war and expansion
14 section P: conspiracies, revolts and scandals
15. Section Q: popular entertainment
16. Section R: literature, arts and culture
17. Section S: society
18. Section T: panegyric and invective
19. Section U: the upper classes.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]