Druso

Un condottiero oscurato

by Lorenzo Braccesi

Book cover: Druso

Extent: 208 pages

Publisher: L’ERMA di Bretschneider

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Problemi e Ricerche di Storia Antica

Series volume number: 38

Language: Italian

Paperback (Published)

(February 2024)

ISBN: 9788891332981

5.47 x 8.43 inches

Price: $175.00

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Although the bibliography on the Augustan age is overflowing, if there is a cloudy area, it concerns the character of Drusus, who died in his thirties after conquering the whole of Germany from the Rhine to the Elbe. A shadow zone certainly determined by the loss of the most recent decades of Livy’s work and by the wreckage of treatises on the bella Germanica; but, above all, to be charged to the mala voluntas of Tiberius, the elder, who, envious of the achievements of Drusus, suggested, having become monarch, a rewriting of the history of the deeds that subordinated his own glory to his own.

  • By (author) Lorenzo Braccesi