Augustus: From Republic to Empire

Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Jarosław Bodzek, Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Jarosław Bodzek

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781784917807
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784917814
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Roman Ancient History
• Index: History

Augustus: From Republic to Empire is the product of a conference entitled AUGUSTUS. 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD – 2000 years of divinity organised on 12 December 2014 by the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations at the Jagiellonian University and the National Museum in Krakow. The conference was hosted by the Emeryk Hutten- Czapski Museum – a branch of the National Museum in Krakow – and commemorated the anniversary of Augustus's death.

The volume offers readers articles that deal with a variety of topics ranging from architecture, urban issues and painting to fine art represented by glyptics and numismatics. It includes papers devoted to the publication of previously unknown objects, articles presenting iconographic research, deliberations on propaganda, and analyses of the political situation and source texts. Chronologically, some of the papers go beyond the age of August, yet are relevant to the understanding of the transformations that took place in art and architecture during the reign of the first princeps, the widely-understood middle and late periods of the Republic, and the early Empire. The geographic scope of the articles covers the entire territory of the Empire. This diverse topic allows a variety of research themes on the epoch of August to be presented from a broad perspective.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• IMP XV/SICIL – The debate over the Augustus golden quaternio of Pompeii
• Propaganda of victory in iconography on gems from Novae
• An attempt at identifying the location of the ancient agora
• Changes in the urban layout and architecture
• The Augustan inspirations for the decoration of the chimney place
• Octavian/Augustus’s propaganda messages
• Capricorn and the star – the astrological symbols of Augustus
• Between greatness and divinity.
• Octavian in Egypt. Propaganda and graffiti
• The villa of Livia on the Via Flaminia and its restoration
• Plundered art in the galleries of Augustan Rome
• Residential villas in Italy in the Augustan age:
• Augustus and Cyrenaica