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Author : R. O. Bucholz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Augustan Court written by R. O. Bucholz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. O. Bucholz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804720809
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Augustan Court written by R. O. Bucholz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300106978
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Dressed to Rule written by Philip Mansel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history rulers have used clothes as a form of legitimization and propaganda. While palaces, pictures, and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch’s predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the preferences of the monarch himself. Being both personal and visible, the right costume at the right time could transform and define a monarch’s reputation. Many royal leaders have known this, from Louis XIV to Catherine the Great and from Napoleon I to Princess Diana. This intriguing book explores how rulers have sought to control their image through their appearance. Mansel shows how individual styles of dress throw light on the personalities of particular monarchs, on their court system, and on their ambitions. The book looks also at the economics of the costume industry, at patronage, at the etiquette involved in mourning dress, and at the act of dressing itself. Fascinating glimpses into the lives of European monarchs and contemporary potentates reveal the intimate connection between power and the way it is packaged.
Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190901411
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Alternative Augustan Age written by Josiah Osgood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and provocatively shifts the focus off Augustus while still looking at events of his time. Contributors uncover the perspectives and contributions of a range of individuals other than the princeps. Not all thought they were living in the "Augustan Age." Not all took their cues from Augustus. In their self-display or ideas for reform, some anticipated Augustus. Others found ways to oppose him that also helped to shape the future of their community. The volume challenges the very idea of an "Augustan Age" by breaking down traditional turning points and showing the continuous experimentation and development of these years to be in continuity with earlier Roman culture. In showcasing absences of Augustus and giving other figures their due, the papers here make a seemingly familiar period startlingly new.
Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139433512
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Virgil and the Augustan Reception written by Richard F. Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.
Author : Peter Michael Swan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347142
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Augustan Succession written by Peter Michael Swan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the author's maternal Greek, the Roman History of the third-century A.D. historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor Augustus. In The Augustan Succession Peter Michael Swan provides an ample historical and historiographic commentary on Books 55-56 of the History. These books recount Augustus's last twenty-three years (9 B.C.-A.D. 14), during which the aging monarch, amid dynastic tragedies and military setbacks, orchestrated the continuation of the constitutional and imperial system developed under his leadership, which ended in his transmission of power to his son-in-law Tiberius. The Augustan Succession is the first commentary since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work. This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul. An acute and interested contemporary observer of wide experience, positioned close to the seat of imperial power, he was a self-assured personality who embodied deeply conservative political and social views and prejudices. All these factors inform the pages of Dio's Augustan narrative, as does, above all, his doctrine that the best remedy for the troubles of his own age of "rust and iron" was rule on the model of Augustus. This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work.
Author : Raymond Marks
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132679
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
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
Author : Robert Folkestone Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Domestic Memoirs of the Royal Family and of the Court of England written by Robert Folkestone Williams and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig W. Kallendorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405172029
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Classical Tradition written by Craig W. Kallendorf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory
Author : Livia Capponi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135873682
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Augustan Egypt written by Livia Capponi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John Colin Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book History of Roman literature ... to the Augustan age written by John Colin Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Colin Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book History of Roman Literature: During the Augustan age written by John Colin Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Colin Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ... written by John Colin Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paweł Gołyźniak
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789695406
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus written by Paweł Gołyźniak and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies small but highly captivating artworks from antiquity – engraved gemstones. These objects had multiple applications, and the images upon them captured snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They provide a unique perspective on the propaganda of Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198147312
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Augustan Aristocracy written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B.C. and forward to the reign of Nero in search of documentation of the Augustan aristocracy. Syme draws particularly on the Annals of Tacitus to cover 150 years in the history of Roman families, chronicling their splendor and success, as well as their subsequent fall within the embrace of the dynasty.
Author : Richard Alston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190231602
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Rome's Revolution written by Richard Alston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian--emerged as leaders of a revolutionary regime, which crushed all opposition. In time, Lepidus was removed, Antony and Cleopatra were dispatched, and Octavian stood alone as sole ruler of Rome. He became Augustus, Rome's first emperor, and by the time of his death in AD 14 the 500-year-old republic was but a distant memory and the birth of one of history's greatest empires was complete. Rome's Revolution provides a riveting narrative of this tumultuous period of change. Historian Richard Alston digs beneath the high politics of Cicero, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian to reveal the experience of the common Roman citizen and soldier. He portrays the revolution as the crisis of a brutally competitive society, both among the citizenry and among the ruling class whose legitimacy was under threat. Throughout, he sheds new light on the motivations that drove men to march on their capital city and slaughter their compatriots. He also shows the reasons behind and the immediate legacy of the awe inspiringly successful and ruthless reign of Emperor Augustus. An enthralling story of ancient warfare, social upheaval, and personal betrayal, Rome's Revolution offers an authoritative new account of an epoch which still haunts us today.
Author : Dwight Condo Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Literary Background for the Life and Policies of Octavianus Augustus in the Period Circa 44 to 27 B.C. written by Dwight Condo Baker and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
