The Failure of Augustus

The Failure of Augustus
Author: E.A. Judge
Publsiher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781527529342

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Augustus did not mean to become the “Founder of the Roman Empire”. We only say this to make sense of what happened later. At the time, there were indeed suspicions. However, Augustus plugged on with his propaganda, with a proud and clear aim in mind. In the end, though, his own persistence defeated him. In all history, we must first find out what was true at the time. This book focuses always on the particular words of Augustus, and how his mind could be read from them. It is not concerned with any contemporary focus of research in Augustan studies, but offers, rather, a sustained argument over the primacy of the original sources in any historical interpretation. Behind that lies the question of truth itself in any history.

The Failure of the Roman Republic

The Failure of the Roman Republic
Author: R. E. Smith
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107642010

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R. E. Smith attempts to explain and interpret the failure of the Roman Republic in the first century BC.

Augustus and the Destruction of History

Augustus and the Destruction of History
Author: Ingo Gildenhard,Ulrich Gotter,Wolfgang Havener,Louise Lovelace Hodgson
Publsiher: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Historiography
ISBN: 0956838162

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Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern endeavours to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency - not least to challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and his principate and its representation in historiographical discourse, ancient and modern. Some of the most iconic texts and monuments from ancient Rome receive fresh discussion here, including the Forum Romanum and the Forum of Augustus, Virgil's Aeneid and the Fasti Capitolini.

The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome

The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
Author: Nandini B. Pandey
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781108422659

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Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

Domitian s Rome and the Augustan Legacy

Domitian   s Rome and the Augustan Legacy
Author: Raymond Marks,Marcello Mogetta
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472132676

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Combines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian

The Tacitus Encyclopedia

The Tacitus Encyclopedia
Author: Victoria Emma Pagán
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1883
Release: 2023-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781119743330

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The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist das einzige vollständige Referenzwerk seiner Art im Bereich der Tacitus-Studien. Das zweibändige Werk enthält mehr als 1.000 Einträge zu jeder Person und jedem Ort, die in den erhaltenen Werken des römischen Historikers und Politikers Tacitus (ca. 56-120 n. Chr.) Erwähnung finden. In den von einem internationalen Autorenteam verfassten Beiträgen werden die bei Tacitus genannten Personen und Orte in den Kontext eingeordnet, und es werden ihre Beziehungen zum größeren taciteischen Korpus aufgezeigt. Die Einträge sind alphabetisch geordnet und mit Querverweisen versehen. Sie enthalten allgemeine Beschreibungen und Hintergrundinformationen zu den in den Texten genannten Stichworten, Zitate aus antiken Quellen und der einschlägigen Wissenschaft sowie Empfehlungen zum Weiterlesen. Die Enzyklopädie, die als Ausgangspunkt für weitere Forschungen gedacht ist, umfasst zudem 165 Themenschwerpunkte in Verbindung mit den Tacitus-Studien, darunter antike Geschichtsschreibung, Geschichte, Sozialgeschichte, Geschlecht und Sexualität, Literaturkritik, antike Autoren, Rezeption und materielle Kultur. Dieses unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk bietet nicht nur einen umfassenden Überblick über die Inhalte der taciteischen Schriften, sondern darüber hinaus: * Eine Darstellung von rund 1.000 Personen sowie 400 Regionen, Städten und Orten, geografischen und topologischen Merkmalen * Einen verständlichen Einstieg in die Werke des Tacitus, insbesondere die Annalen, Historien, Agricola, Germania und Dialogus de oratoribus für Leserinnen und Leser mit unterschiedlichen Vorkenntnissen * Die Erörterung einer großen Bandbreite an Themen wie Geschlechterfragen, Sklaverei, Literaturgeschichte sowie der Regentschaft einzelner Herrscher * Eine Präsentation der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Rezeption von Tacitus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart * Betrachtungen der wissenschaftlichen Trends, der aktuellen Methodik und künftigen Richtungen der Tacitus-Studien Das Werk The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist als Druckfassung und als Online-Version erhältlich. Es ist ein unentbehrliches Referenzwerk für Studierende und Forschende in den Bereichen Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung, Klassische Philologie, Kunstgeschichte, Sozialwissenschaften, Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Archäologie und Romanistik.

Suetonius the Biographer

Suetonius  the Biographer
Author: Tristan Power,Roy K. Gibson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199697106

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The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars. Beginning with an introduction that assesses the originality of Suetonius as a writer and situates the essays within the context of debates and controversies over his biographical form, the collection addresses the issues surrounding his style, themes, and early influence on literature in three parts. The first part discusses formal features of Suetonian biography, such as his literary techniques, manners of citation and quotation, and devices of allusion and closure. The middle section is devoted to readings of the individual Lives, treating several topics - from Suetonius' decision to begin his collection with Julius Caesar, to fictional elements in his death scene of the emperor Caligula, to the theme of solitude in his Life of Domitian. The last part examines the ways in which Suetonius transgresses the boundaries of ancient biography by looking at his influence on epistolographers, antiquarians, commentators, and later biographers. This volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to know why Suetonius' Lives are such a unique and powerful medium for the stories of ancient Rome, and how they became the primary model for later biography.

Augustus

Augustus
Author: Jonathan Edmondson
Publsiher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780748695386

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This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.