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Between Republic and Empire

Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate
  • Edited by: Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.


Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.

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Raaflaub Kurt A. :

Kurt Raaflaub is Professor of Classics and History at Brown University. Mark Toher is Associate Professor of Classics at Union College.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

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    Editors' Preface

    XI
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    A Man, a Book, and a Method: Sir Ronald Syme's Roman Revolution After Fifty Years

    1
    H. Galsterer
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    The Personality of Augustus: Reflections on Syme's Roman Revolution

    21
    Z. Yavetz
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    Mommsen and Syme: Law and Power in the Principate of Augustus

    42
    J. Linderski
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    C. Caesar Divi filius and the Formation of the Alternative in Rome

    54
    C. Meier
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    Augustus and the Power of Tradition: The Augustan Principate as Binding Link between Republic and Empire

    71
    W. Eder
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    Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum

    123
    T. J. Luce
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    Augustus and the Evolution of Roman Historiography

    139
    M. Toher
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    Cassius Dio's Assessment of Augustus

    155
    M. Reinhold and P. M. Swan
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    The Death of Turnus: Augustan Vergil and the Political Rival

    174
    H.-P. Stahl
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    Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the Ambiguities of Encomium

    212
    M. C. J.M. C. J. Putnam
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    Tristia 2: Ovid and Augustus

    239
    S. G. Nugent
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    Did Maecenas "Fall from Favor"? Augustan Literary Patronage

    258
    G. Williams
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    The City Adorned: Programmatic Display at the Aedes Concordiae Augustae

    276
    B. A. Kellum
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    Augustan Building Programs in the Western Provinces

    308
    W. Mierse
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    Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and Early Principate

    334
    J. Pollini
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    The Augustales in the Augustan Scheme

    364
    S. E. Ostrow
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    The Pontificate of Augustus

    380
    G. W. Bowersock
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    The Imperial Policy of Augustus

    395
    E. S. Gruen
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    Opposition to Augustus

    417
    K. A. Raaflaub and L. J. Samsons
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    Index of Subjects

    455
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    Index of Persons and Places

    465
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    Index of Scholars

    472
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    Index of Sources

    475
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eBook published on:
April 28, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780520914513
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Reprint 2019
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550
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Keywords for this book
ancient roman history; roman historiography; roman poetry; roman art; roman religion; roman politics; roman empire; world history; athenian politics; age of socrates; augustan monarchy; saint augustus; roman revolution; roman principate; tiberius; pax romana; julius caesar; european history; italian history; ancient history; classics studies; roman studies; roman emperors; roman social history; roman republic; imperial rome; augustan scholarship; greco roman studies; roman military; classical history; augustan age; classics
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