Augustus

ISBN-13: 9780748615957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 576 str.

Jonathan Edmondson

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Augustus (63 BC - AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next three hundred years. This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.Chapters include: Augustus' dramatic rise to prominence following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC and the nature of his powers first as triumvir, then as Princeps; his policy regarding overseas wars and expansion, his administrative and military reforms of the Roman state; the role of his own family, his wife Livia, his son-in-law Agrippa and his adopted sons Gaius and Lucius Caesar and then Tiberius, in public life; his concern to reinforce Roman religion and family life; the development of an ideology that helped bolster his authority as ruler of an expan

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Details of Original Publications; Acknowledgements; Note to the Reader; Abbreviations; Map of the Roman Empire, c. A.D. 14; Introduction: Approaching the Age of Augustus; Introduction to Part I; 1. Imperator Caesar: a Study in Nomenclature, Ronald Syme; 2. Triumvirate and Principate, Fergus Millar; 3. The Powers of Augustus, Jean-Louis Ferrary, trans. Jonathan Edmondson; 4. Augustus, War and Peace, John Rich; 5. Livia and the Womanhood of Rome , Nicholas Purcell; Introduction to Part II; 6. The Political Significance of Augustus' Military Reforms, Kurt A. Raaflaub; 7. Augustus' Administrative Reforms: Pragmatism or Systematic Planning? Werner Eck, trans. Claus Nader; 8. Family and Inheritance in the Augustan Marriage Laws, Andrew Wallace Hadrill; 9. To Honour the Princeps and Worship the Gods: Public Cult, Cult in the Neighbourhoods, and Imperial Cult in Augustan Rome, John Scheid, trans. Jonathan Edmondson; Introduction to Part III; 10. Monuments of the Battle of Actium: Propaganda and Response, Tonio Hölscher, trans. Claus Nader; 11. Augustan Cleopatras, Maria Wyke; 12. Cybele, Virgil, and Augustus, T. P. Wiseman; 13. Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum, T. J. Luce; Introduction to Part IV; 14. Colonia Augusta Emerita, Capital of Lusitania, Walter Trillmich; 15. The Cities of the Greek World under Augustus, Glen Bowersock; Chronology; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index.