Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Editors' Preface XI
4. A Man, a Book, and a Method: Sir Ronald Syme's Roman Revolution After Fifty Years 1
5. The Personality of Augustus: Reflections on Syme's Roman Revolution 21
6. Mommsen and Syme: Law and Power in the Principate of Augustus 42
7. C. Caesar Divi filius and the Formation of the Alternative in Rome 54
8. Augustus and the Power of Tradition: The Augustan Principate as Binding Link between Republic and Empire 71
9. Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum 123
10. Augustus and the Evolution of Roman Historiography 139
11. Cassius Dio's Assessment of Augustus 155
12. The Death of Turnus: Augustan Vergil and the Political Rival 174
13. Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the Ambiguities of Encomium 212
14. Tristia 2: Ovid and Augustus 239
15. Did Maecenas "Fall from Favor"? Augustan Literary Patronage 258
16. The City Adorned: Programmatic Display at the Aedes Concordiae Augustae 276
17. Augustan Building Programs in the Western Provinces 308
18. Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and Early Principate 334
19. The Augustales in the Augustan Scheme 364
20. The Pontificate of Augustus 380
21. The Imperial Policy of Augustus 395
22. Opposition to Augustus 417
23. Index of Subjects 455
24. Index of Persons and Places 465
25. Index of Scholars 472
26. Index of Sources 475