Magisterial Components of Augustus' Power: the Western Historiography of the XIX-XX Centuries
The article examines the problem of Augustus' constitutional basis. The author begins from Th. Mommsen's conception and shows that there were as its supporters, so its opponents among the scholars in the historiography of the XIX-XX centuries. Surely Augustus' Power derived from various sources, but his constitutional basis included imperium and tribunicia potestas only. So the special attention was paid to different interpretations of these magisterial components of Augustus' Power (the researches of M. Grant, M. Hammond, G.E.F. Chilver, E.T. Salmon, A.H.M. Jones etc.).