L. Munatius Plancus

Thomas H. Watkins is Emeritus Professor at Western Illinois University, USA, and after his retirement taught Roman history at Virginia Tech for 10 years.

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The evidence: discontinuity, biases, and hypotheses; Chapter 2: Family and homeland: the Munatii Planci of southern Latium; Chapter 3: Plancus the Caesarian, 54-44: from legate to consul designate; Chapter 4: Plancus without Caesar: proconsul of Gaul, March-December, 44; Chapter 5: Plancus the reluctant warrior: January-July, 43; Chapter 6: Plancus the Antonian, late 43-mid-32; Chapter 7: Plancus in transition and Horace, Ode 1.7; Chapter 8: Plancus the Augustan, mid-32-22; Epilogue: Perilous prominence: the Tivoli villa, the Temple of Saturn, and the mausoleum through the centuries; Appendix I: L. Licinius Crassus and the Munatii Planci; Appendix II: T. Munatius Plancus Bursa; Bibliography; Index of People; Index of Topics