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University of Glasgow
The role and character of the praetorian guard and the praetorian prefecture until the accession of Vespasian
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the role of the Praetorian Guard in the hundred years between the battle of Actium and the accession of Vespasian. This necessitates not only a consideration of those political activities which the Praetorians undertook at the behest of their emperors but also an examination into the motivations of the guardsmen themselves. Moreover, any study of the Praetorian Guard would be less than complete without an account of the development of the Praetorian prefecture. (Now unrestricted)
Degree
thesis:*- Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
- PhD
- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- University of Glasgow
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1991
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kerr, John Latimer
Subjects
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- Language dc:language
- en