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The Age of Augustus

Author : Werner Eck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405151498
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Augustus written by Werner Eck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. Incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to power Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Roman empire Traces the history of the Roman revolution and Rome's transformation from a republic to an empire Includes a new chapter on legislation, further information on the monuments of the Augustan period, more maps and illustrations, and a stemma of Augustus' family Thorough, straightforward, and organized chronologically, this is an ideal resource for anyone approaching the subject for the first time

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus

Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494567
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus written by Karl Galinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC – AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring theme is the role that he played in shaping their direction. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus captures the dynamics and richness of this era by examining important aspects of political and social history, religion, literature, and art and architecture. The sixteen essays, written by distinguished specialists from the United States and Europe, explore the multi-faceted character of the period and the interconnections between social, religious, political, literary, and artistic developments. Introducing the reader to many of the central issues of the Age of Augustus, the essays also break new ground and will stimulate further research and discussion.

The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus

Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472081240
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus written by Paul Zanker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar

The Romans And Their Gods

Author : R M Ogilvie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446475158
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Romans And Their Gods written by R M Ogilvie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To undestand the success of the Romans you must understand their piety. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. For over a thousand years, Roman religion satisfied the spiritual needs of a wide range of peoples throughout the empire, because is offered an intelligent and dignified interpretation of how the world functions. It was a firm, yet tolerant, religion whose adherents committed very few crimes in its name and who were healthily free of neuroses. In this short, perceptive study of Roman religious life between 80 BC and AD 69, Professor Ogilvie shows how intimately involved were the Roman gods with human activities. Drawing widely on original material (all of it quoted in translation), he tells us how the Romans prayed, what happened at a sacrifice, what sort of gods they believed in, and how seriously they took their religion - a religion in which actions, , not dogma, was paramount.

The Age of Augustus

Author : Melvin George Lowe Cooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780903625364
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Augustus written by Melvin George Lowe Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and archaeogical source material on the Age of Augustus, collected under a series of headings, including some long extracts of major authors and poets.

Augustus

Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812970586
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Augustus written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He 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.

Romanization in the Time of Augustus

Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300129908
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Romanization in the Time of Augustus written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In his newest book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period.Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discovers that during this period more than half a million Roman veterans were resettled in colonies overseas, and an additional hundred or more urban centers in the provinces took on normal Italian-Roman town constitutions. Great sums of expendable wealth came into the hands of ambitious Roman and local notables, some of which was spent in establishing and advertising Roman ways. MacMullen argues that acculturation of the ancient world was due not to cultural imperialism on the part of the conquerors but to eagerness of imitation among the conquered, and that the Romans were able to respond with surprisingly effective techniques of mass production and standardization.

Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus

Author : Kristina Milnor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515647
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus written by Kristina Milnor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on `traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of texts and their contexts in order to explore this paradox. Through an examination of authors such as Vitruvius, Livy, Valerius Maximus, Seneca the Elder, and Columella, she argues that female domesticity was both a principle and a problem for early imperial writers, as they sought to construct a new definition of who and what constituted Roman public life.

Augustus

Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210078
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Augustus written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Augustan Rome

Author : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147253297X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Augustan Rome written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written 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.

The Age of Augustus

Author : Werner Eck
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631229575
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Augustus written by Werner Eck and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise biography, Professor Werner Eck, one of the world's leading experts on the Roman empire, tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first emperor. A concise and gripping account of Augustus and his age. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the Roman Empire. Examines the transformation of Rome from a republic to a monarchy. Covers domestic and foreign policy, constitutional developments, and cultural achievements. Compares Augustus' own account of his life to other historical narratives and archaeological records. Includes a new translation of Augustus' Res Gestae with a short introduction and a substantial bibliography to aid further study.

Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy

Author : Raymond Marks
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132679
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy written by Raymond Marks and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian

Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853995521
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus by : Anton Powell

Download or read book Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus written by Anton Powell and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political aspects of Augustan poetry have attracted much academic interest. The aim of this study is to take account of the effects of Augustan propaganda not only on the work of contemporary Roman writers, but also on the critical tradition itself. The six essays presented in this volume explore the political themes in the work of major poets such as Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Propertius. Using traditional as well as post-structuralist approaches, the essays examine the controversies of the Civil Wars, the emerging issues of treason and free speech and changing representations of Cleopatra and female power.

The Romans in the Age of Augustus

Author : Andrew Lintott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444319323
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Romans in the Age of Augustus written by Andrew Lintott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this book offers afascinating history of Rome and the Roman peoples during the ruleof the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Written in an easily accessible style, making it the idealintroduction to Augustan Rome for those with little previousknowledge Offers compelling insight into the workings of Roman societyduring this pivotal period in its history Incorporates the most recent scholarship on aspects ofAugustus's reign including the armed forces, religion, andintellectual and cultural life Andrew Lintott is a widely respected expert on the RomanRepublic

Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14

Author : J. S. Richardson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629041
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14 written by J. S. Richardson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centring 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.

The Age of Augustus

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560063063
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Augustus written by Don Nardo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the politics, culture, religion, and society of Rome during the reign of the Emperor Augustus.

The Age of Augustus

Author : Donald C. Earl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896730441
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Augustus written by Donald C. Earl and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: