Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014

The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014 commemorated not only the end of his life but also the beginning of a two-thousand-year reception history. This volume addresses the range and breadth of that history

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goodman, Penelope J., editor (editor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2018
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Table of Contents:
  • Best of emperors or subtle tyrant? Augustus the ambivalent / Penelope J. Goodman
  • The last days of Augustus / Alison E. Cooley
  • Seneca's Augustus : (re)calibrating the imperial model for a young prince / Steven J. Green
  • Embodying the Augustan in Suetonius and beyond / Patrick Cook
  • The first emperor? Augustus and Julius Caesar as rival founders of the principate / Joseph Geiger
  • Julian Augustus on Augustus : Octavian in the Caesars / Shaun Tougher
  • Augustus : the harbinger of peace. Orosius' reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos / Michael C. Sloan
  • The Byzantine Augustus : the reception of the first Roman emperor in the Byzantine tradition / Kosta Simić
  • Augustus and the Carolingians
  • Jürgen Strothmann
  • Augustus as visionary: the legend of the Augustan altar in S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome / Kerry Boeye and Nandini B. Pandey
  • From peacemaker to tyrant : the changing image of Augustus in Italian Renaissance political thought / Robert Black
  • Augustus in Morisot's "Book 8" of the Fasti
  • Bobby Xinyue
  • The proconsul and the emperor : John Buchan's Augustus
  • James T. Chlup
  • In search of a new princeps : Günther Birkenfeld and his Augustus novels, 1934-1984 / Martin Lindner
  • Augustus in the rhetorical tradition / Kathleen S. Lamp
  • The Parthian arch of Augustus and its legacy : memory manipulation in imperial Rome and modern scholarship / Maggie L. Popkin
  • Life through a lens : Augustus and the politics of the past in television documentaries today / Fiona Hobden
  • Augusto reframed : exhibiting Augustus in bimillennial Rome / Anna Clareborn
  • Small bandwidth : Augustus'(non)reception in America and its context / Karl Galinsky.