Anne-Marie Lewis (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek and A Latin

Celestial Inclinations

A Life of Augustus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Celestial Inclinations offers original insights into the practical application of observational astronomy and astrology as political tools by Rome's first emperor Augustus. It combines history, astronomy, literature, art, and more to provide a new perspective on the life of Augustus, a man who believed his destiny was written in the stars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 906g
• ISBN-13: 9780197599648
• ISBN-10: 0197599648
• Artikelnr.: 67439447

Autorenporträt

Anne-Marie Lewis is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek and Latin at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Nigidius Figulus and the Birth of a Future Dominus for the
World
* Chapter 2 Celestial Display and Cicero's Consular Year
* Chapter 3 Celestial Venus, Caesar's Victories, and the Julian
Calendar
* Chapter 4 Cicero's Aratea and the Education of Octavius in the Fixed
Constellations
* Chapter 5 Theogenes of Apollonia and Geniturae of Agrippa and
Octavius
* Chapter 6 Octavianus and the Sidus Crinitum of September 44 B.C.
* Chapter 7 Conflict, Alliance, and the Stella Comans
* Chapter 8 Antonius, Octavianus, and the Egyptian Mathematicus
* Chapter 9 Octavianus, Antonius, and the Banquet of the Twelve Gods
* Chapter 10 From Naulochus to Actium
* Chapter 11 Triumphs and Temples after the Battle of Actium
* Chapter 12 A New Name for Octavianus and the Ludi Saeculares
* Chapter 13 Deaths in the Family and the Ara Pacis Augustae
* Chapter 14 Consolidation and Transition in the Final Years of
Augustus' Rule
* Chapter 15 Honores Caelestes: The Death, Funeral, and Deification of
Augustus
* Bibliography
* Index