About the Author

Claude Nicolet was Professor at the Sorbonne, Directeur d’Études of École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe Section), and of the Centre Gustav Glotz in Paris.  He was also a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

Reviews

. . . thoughtful and thought-provoking, acute in its reasoning, often original, and admirably erudite. . . . [Nicolet] assembles a wealth of material, proposes new and often ingenious connections, and substantially broadens the dimensions of the Augustan age. The work will have a place in all future discussions of that era." —Erich S. Gruen, Classical Philology

"It is the great merit of Nicolet's book that it makes one see very familiar things, like Tiberius' survey, in a new light." —Fergus Millar, Journal of Roman Archaeology