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Potere e follia : gli eredi di Augusto, le loro madri, sorelle e consorti

2023 - L'Erma di Bretschneider

158 pages

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-152) and indexes.
  • The book examines the Julio-Claudian family, highlighting how the successors of Augustus were undermined by psychological traumas or mental disorders dating back to childhood or adolescence. Such issues allowed for decision-making instability, flight from reality and constant fear of conspiracies against them. Therefore i in order to reassert their role, they reacted with bloodbaths involving, first and foremost, their own relatives. Their women, on the other hand, repeatedly possess the political perception and energy they lack, either to make their widowhood a manifesto against the system, or, if consorts of autocrats, to impose their first-born sons as their successors using hypocritical mixtures of love and venom. [Publisher's text]
  • Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.), Emperor of Rome.