| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 418 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Explores two thousand years of radically changing opinions on the emperor Augustus, and what they reveal about the historical individual |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. fast |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Civilization
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and government
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Archaeology.
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History.
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General & world history.
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Ancient Rome.
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Ancient history.
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Ancient World.
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History.
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Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-68 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115181
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Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115125
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodman, Penelope J., editor
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| ISBN |
9781108542753 |
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1108542751 |
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9781108529167 |
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110852916X |
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1108540058 |
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9781108540056 |
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