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Author | : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2018-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472528999 |
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.
Author | : Raymond Marks |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472132679 |
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 | : J. S. Richardson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748629041 |
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.
Author | : J. Bert Lott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521828277 |
Author | : Nandini B. Pandey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108422659 |
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author | : Richard L. Hunter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110847490X |
Interprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.
Author | : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2018-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147253297X |
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.
Author | : Karl Galinsky |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1998-02-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691058900 |
Weaving 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 |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812970586 |
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.
Author | : Karl Galinsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2005-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107494567 |
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.