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Author: Raymond Marks
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0472132679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian
Author: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1472528999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and environment manipulated by Augustus are explored, along with reactions to that manipulation. Emphasising the role and impact of art and architecture of the time, and on Roman attitudes and values, Augustan Rome explains how the victory of Octavian at Actium transformed Rome and Roman life. This thought-provoking yet concise volume sets political changes in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome.
Author: J. Bert Lott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-19
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521828277
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Author: J. S. Richardson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-03-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748629041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCentring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history. Within this period the Roman world was reconfigured. On a political and constitutional level the patterns of the republic, which sustained an oligarchic regime and a popularist structure, were transformed into a monarchical dictatorship in which the earlier elements continued to function. On an imperial level, the growth in Roman power reached what was virtually its apogee. In literature and the visual arts, new forms of expression, based on those of the previous generations but closely linked to the new regime, showed great achievements. In society and the economy, the effectiveness and dominance of Rome as the centre of world power became increasingly obvious.
Author: Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-11
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1108422659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 147253297X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and environment manipulated by Augustus are explored, along with reactions to that manipulation. Emphasising the role and impact of art and architecture of the time, and on Roman attitudes and values, Augustan Rome explains how the victory of Octavian at Actium transformed Rome and Roman life. This thought-provoking yet concise volume sets political changes in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome.
Author: Richard L. Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 110847490X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.
Author: Karl Galinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998-02-15
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780691058900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.
Author: Anthony Everitt
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2007-10-09
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0812970586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0300210078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe acclaimed historian and author of Caesar presents “a first-rate popular biography” of Rome’s first emperor, written “with a storyteller’s brio” (Washington Post). The story of Augustus’ life is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord whose only claim to power was as the grand-nephew and heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him “a boy who owes everything to a name,” but he soon outmaneuvered a host of more experienced politicians to become the last man standing in 30 BC. Over the next half century, Augustus created a new system of government—the Principate or rule of an emperor—which brought peace and stability to the vast Roman Empire. In this highly anticipated biography, Goldsworthy puts his deep knowledge of ancient sources to full use, recounting the events of Augustus’ long life in greater detail than ever before. Goldsworthy pins down the man behind the myths: a consummate manipulator, propagandist, and showman, both generous and ruthless. Under Augustus’ rule the empire prospered, yet his success was constantly under threat and his life was intensely unpredictable.
