Jean-Michel Roddaz De Jules César à César Auguste : cinquante ans de Révolution romaine

Jean-Michel Roddaz is Professor Emeritus at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne, where he was the first director of the Institut Ausonius. He is one of the world’s leading specialists in the transition from the Roman Republic to the Principate. His first book was a biography of Agrippa (1984), but, since then, he has continued to work on this topic, making major advances. He has also published on important individuals from this period such as Julius Caesar, his adopted son Augustus, Mark Antony, his brother L. Antonius and Lepidus, but also on some secondary political figures such as L. Cornelius Balbus. He has also expanded the geographical horizons of his research beyond Rome by investigating the impact of the political crises and the birth of an imperial monarchy on provincial societies. He has chosen the Iberian Peninsula as his main line of research, working on it from the Second Punic War to the Roman imperial period, but he has also explored aspects of the Greek East under Roman rule and, especially, the figure of Herod. Since his research has produced such a coherent analysis of these topics, a number of his friends and former students have decided to collect his main articles in a single volume. This publication contains 28 articles divided into two main thematic sections: first, the history of a political “revolution” as seen from Rome; secondly, a vision of the history of Rome as it was lived in this period in the provinces and by the inhabitants of those provinces.