At 09:43 AM 9/14/98 -0500, you wrote: >By conservative, I take it you mean Galinsky's position that Augustus's >takeover was basically a Good Thing, as opposed to Syme's linkage of >Augustus's rise to power with the way Hitler and other '30's dictators >came to power? Or do you mean conservative in some other sense?
No, that's about what I meant, though after thinking about it for a few days, I probably ought to have picked an adjective that is subject to less variation over time and distance. > Also, I don't know what kind of course you have in mind, but for a >narrative history of the early empire, why not have students read >something straight from the horse's mouth, such as Tacitus's _Histories_ >and _Annals_? Tacitus's dissatisfaction with Augustus certainly offsets >the Galinsky perspective. Most of the primary sources are in fact available online now at the Ancient History Sourcebook <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html>, a phenomenal resource I learned about this evening from N. S. Gill's Ancient History newsletter <http://ancienthistory.miningco.com/msub19.htm>. Having said that, I'm still looking for a more synoptic approach to the period. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Chicago Online Virgil discussion, bibliography & links ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
