Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Augustan Rome (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472532978
• Artikelnr.: 50917082

Autorenporträt

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars (1983) and Suetonius (1995), both available from Bloomsbury; and more recently Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Chronological Overview The House of Caesars:
A Family Tree Who's Who 1. Writing for Augustus 2. The Myth of Actium 3.
Metamorphosis 4. Palace and Court 5. Golden Rome 6. Love and War 7. God and
Man 8. The Afterlife of Augustus Suggestions for Further Reading Index