I'm doing a project on the Res Gestae, and one of the questions asks if there are any contemporary examples of similar documents. By contemporary, I mean similar documents that were created at about the same time, not "contemporary" in the sense that it has modern counterparts.
I...am not coming up with anything, and Google has failed me. I asked this question in a less specific form and someone replied that it reads like a resume -- and it does, but I don't need modern comparisons, I need historical ones that are more or less contemporaneous with the Res Gestae. Any ideas?
2007-11-20 08:54:07 · 2 answers · asked by Mandy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Res Gestae is latin for "things done". It is a legal term, but you are probably thinking about the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, (latin: Deeds of the Divine Augustus), a first person account of the deeds of Emperor Augustus in the years before his death.
Augustus's reign was highly experimental, so there is not really anything like it.
2007-11-20 09:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have to help us out. What was the res gestae? How to define or describe it in modern terms? Get back to Caesar Augustus. I'm sure that if you Google and Wiki long enough, you will have enough key words to ask a question in Yahoo Answers or Google.
2007-11-20 17:18:55 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋