Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goodman, Penelope J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014 commemorated not only the end of his life but also the beginning of a two-thousand-year reception history. This volume addresses the range and breadth of that history. Beginning with the Emperor's death and continuing through Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and early modernity to the present day, chapters address political positioning, religious mythologisation, philosophy, rhetoric, narratives, memory, and material embodiment. As they collectively reveal, Augustus has meant radically different things from one time and place to another, and even to some individual commentators as the circumstances around them changed. The weight of established narratives has often also shaped those of subsequent generations, with or without their conscious awareness. The book outlines and analyses the major themes in Augustus' reception history, clarifying the cultural and historiographical issues at stake and providing a platform for further scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108540056
• Artikelnr.: 53397661

Inhaltsangabe

1. Best of emperors or subtle tyrant? Augustus the ambivalent Penelope J.
Goodman; 2. The last days of Augustus Alison E. Cooley; 3. Seneca's
Augustus: (re)calibrating the imperial model for a young prince Steven J.
Green; 4. Embodying the Augustan in Suetonius and beyond Patrick Cook; 5.
The first emperor? Augustus and Julius Caesar as rival founders of the
principate Joseph Geiger; 6. Julian Augustus on Augustus: Octavian in the
Caesars Shaun Tougher; 7. Augustus: the harbinger of peace. Orosius'
reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos Michael C. Sloan; 8.
The Byzantine Augustus: the reception of the first Roman emperor in the
Byzantine tradition Kosta Simi¿; 9. Augustus and the Carolingians Jürgen
Strothmann; 10. Augustus as visionary: the legend of the Augustan altar in
S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome Kerry Boeye and Nandini B. Pandey; 11. From
peacemaker to tyrant: the changing image of Augustus in Italian Renaissance
political thought Robert Black; 12. Augustus in Morisot's 'Book 8' of the
Fasti Bobby Xinyue; 13. The proconsul and the emperor: John Buchan's
Augustus James T. Chlup; 14. In search of a new princeps: Günther
Birkenfeld and his Augustus novels, 1934-1984 Martin Lindner; 15. Augustus
in the rhetorical tradition Kathleen S. Lamp; 16. The Parthian arch of
Augustus and its legacy: memory manipulation in imperial Rome and modern
scholarship Maggie L. Popkin; 17. Life through a lens: Augustus and the
politics of the past in television documentaries today Fiona Hobden; 18.
Augusto reframed: exhibiting Augustus in bimillennial Rome Anna Clareborn;
19. Small bandwidth: Augustus' (non)reception in America and its context
Karl Galinsky.