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Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14–2014
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Best of Emperors or Subtle Tyrant? Augustus the Ambivalent
- 2 The Last Days of Augustus
- 3 Seneca's Augustus: (Re)calibrating the Imperial Model for a Young Prince
- 4 Embodying the Augustan in Suetonius and Beyond
- 5 The First Emperor? Augustus and Julius Caesar as Rival Founders of the Principate
- 6 Julian Augustus on Augustus: Octavian in the Caesars
- 7 Augustus, the Harbinger of Peace: Orosius' Reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos
- 8 The Byzantine Augustus: The Reception of the First Roman Emperor in the Byzantine Tradition
- 9 Augustus and the Carolingians
- 10 Augustus as Visionary: The Legend of the Augustan Altar in S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
- 11 From Peacemaker to Tyrant: The Changing Image of Augustus in Italian Renaissance Political Thought
- 12 Augustus in Morisot's 'Book 8' of the Fasti
- 13 The Proconsul and the Emperor: John Buchan's Augustus
- 14 In Search of a New Princeps: Günther Birkenfeld and His Augustus Novels, 1934-1984
- 15 Augustus in the Rhetorical Tradition
- 16 The Parthian Arch of Augustus and Its Legacy: Memory Manipulation in Imperial Rome and Modern Scholarship
- 17 Augustus and the Politics of the Past in Television Documentaries Today
- 18 Augusto Reframed: Exhibiting Augustus in Bimillennial Rome
- 19 Augustus' (Non)reception in America and Its Context
- Bibliography
- Index