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dc.contributor.author	Urso Gianpaolo
dc.title	‘Ritorno alla monarchia’, tra Cesare e Augusto: le origini del principato in Cassio Dione
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dc.description.abstract	For Cassius Dio, there was no continuity between Republic and Principate. The Republic ended between 43 (institution of the triumvirate) and 42 BC (battle of Philippi); the ‘monarchy’ was established between 29 (Octavianus Imperator) and 27 (speech to the senators in January). The founder of the imperial monarchy, however, was not Augustus, but Caesar: his dictatorship was already a means to exert the same monarchic power of his adoptive son. In its inner complexity, such a representation of the transition from the Republic to the Principate is consistent with the way Dio reconstructed the origins of the Republic, in the first (lost) books of his Roman History.
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dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-09-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-473-8/ritorno-alla-monarchia-tra-cesare-e-augusto-le-ori/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-472-1/001
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-473-8
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ancient Rome
dc.subject	Ancient Rome
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Caesar
dc.subject	Caesar
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Cassius Dio
dc.subject	Imperator
dc.subject	Imperator
dc.subject	Monarchy
dc.subject	Monarchy

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‘Ritorno alla monarchia’, tra Cesare e Augusto: le origini del principato in Cassio Dione

Gianpaolo Urso Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italia

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For Cassius Dio, there was no continuity between Republic and Principate. The Republic ended between 43 (institution of the triumvirate) and 42 BC (battle of Philippi); the ‘monarchy’ was established between 29 (Octavianus Imperator) and 27 (speech to the senators in January). The founder of the imperial monarchy, however, was not Augustus, but Caesar: his dictatorship was already a means to exert the same monarchic power of his adoptive son. In its inner complexity, such a representation of the transition from the Republic to the Principate is consistent with the way Dio reconstructed the origins of the Republic, in the first (lost) books of his Roman History.

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Dec. 21, 2020

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Keywords: Caesar • Monarchy • Augustus • Ancient Rome • Imperator • Cassius Dio

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