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The Alternative Augustan Age 1st Edition Kit Morrell Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Kit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, Kathryn Welch

ISBN(s): 9780190901400, 0190901403

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 14.81 MB

Year: 2019

Language: English

SKU: EB-10593144 Category: History - Ancient History Tags: Alternative Augustan, Josiah Osgood, Kathryn Welch, Kit Morrell

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The Alternative Augustan Age 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190901400,0190901403,9780190901424, 019090142X

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ISBN 10: 019090142X
ISBN 13: 9780190901424
Author: Josiah Osgood; Kit Morrell; Kathryn Welch

The princeps Augustus (63 BCE – 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and provocatively shifts the focus off Augustus while still looking at events of his time. Contributors uncover the perspectives and contributions of a range of individuals other than the princeps. Not all thought they were living in the “Augustan Age.” Not all took their cues from Augustus. In their self-display or ideas for reform, some anticipated Augustus. Others found ways to oppose him that also helped to shape the future of their community. The volume challenges the very idea of an “Augustan Age” by breaking down traditional turning points and showing the continuous experimentation and development of these years to be in continuity with earlier Roman culture. In showcasing absences of Augustus and giving other figures their due, the papers here make a seemingly familiar period startlingly new.

Table contents:

1. The Alternative Augustan Age
2. Augustus as Magpie
3. Hopes and Aspirations: Res Publica, Leges et Iura, and Alternatives at Rome
4. Rebuilding Romulus’ Senate: The Lectio Senatus of 18 bce
5. The Good Wife: Fate, Fortune, and Familia in Augustan Rome
6. At Magnus Caesar, and Yet! Social Resistance against Augustan Legislation
7. C. Asinius Pollio and the Politics of Cosmopolitanism
8. For Rome or for Augustus? Triumphs beyond the Imperial Family in the Post-Civil-War Period
9. Egyptian Victories: The Praefectus Aegypti and the Presentation of Military Success in the Age of Augustus
10. African Alternatives
11. The Reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the Idea of “Serving the Times”
12. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marcus Agrippa?
13. Acting “Republican” under Augustus: The Coin Types of the Gens Antistia
14. Saecular Discourse: Qualitative Periodization in First-Century-bce Rome
15. Maecenas and the Augustan Poets: The Background of a Cultural Ambition
16. Gauls on Top: Provincials Ruling Rome on the Shield of Aeneas
17. The Rise of the Centumviral Court in the Augustan Age: An Alternative Arena of Aristocratic Competition
18. Shields of Virtue(s)
19. The Popular Reception of Augustus and the Self-Infantilization of Rome’s Citizenry
20. Inventing the Imperial Senate