Open AccessWybór Klaudiusza na cesarza
Author(s) -
Paweł Sawiński
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
studia europaea gnesnensa/studia europaea gnesnensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-7145
pISSN - 2082-5951
DOI - 10.14746/seg.2015.12.12
Subject(s) - throne , guard (computer science) , concatenation (mathematics) , action (physics) , history , political science , law , computer science , politics , arithmetic , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
The article offers a critical analysis of the source accounts which present the circumstances surrounding the election of Claudius for princeps. Among other things, I attempt to answer the question whether his appointment to the imperial throne resulted from a sheer concatenation of circumstances or was perhaps due to planned action of a substantial group of soldiers of the praetorian guard.