Between republic and empire : interpretations of Augustus and his principate
"The Romans themselves held sharply divided opinions about Augustus's regime. Augustus seized power through violence and civil war and profoundly transformed state and society; but he also pacified the empire, stabilized the government, and remedied fatal weaknesses of the republic. Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship -- historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics -- the nineteen contributors to this volume offer penetrating analyses of questions fundamental to a new assessment, bringing us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate. Book jacket."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1990
Biography
xxi, 495 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520066762, 9780520084476, 0520066766, 0520084470
19353816
Editors' Preface 1. H. GALSTERER (Technische Universitat, Aachen) A Man, a Book, and a Method: Sir Ronald Syme's Roman Revolution after Fifty Years 2. Z. YAVETZ (University of Tel Aviv and Queens College, New York) The Personality of Augustus: Reflections on Syme's Roman Revolution 3. J. LINDERSKI (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Mommsen and Syme: Law and Power in the Principate of Augustus 4. C. MEIER (Universitat Miinchen) C. Caesar Divi filius and the Formation of the Alternative in Rome 5. W. EDER (Freie Universitat, West Berlin) Augustus and the Power of Tradition:The Augustan Principate as Binding Link between Republic and Empire 6. T. J. LucE (Princeton University) Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum 7. M. ToHER (Union College) Augustus and the Evolution of Roman Historiography 8. M. REINHOLD (Boston University) and P. M. SwAN (University of Saskatchewan) Cassius Dio's Assessment of Augustus 9. H. P. STAHL (University of Pittsburgh) The Death of Turnus: Augustan Vergil and the Political Rival 10. M. C. J. PUTNAM (Brown University) Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the Ambiguities of Encomium 11. S. G. NuGENT (Brown University) Tristia 2: Ovid and Augustus 12. G. WILLIAMS (Yale University) Did Maecenas "Fall from Favor"? Augustan Literary Patronage 13. B. A. KELLUM (Smith College) The City Adorned: Programmatic Display at the Aedes Concordiae Augustae 14. W. MIERSE (University of Vermont) Augustan Building Programs in the Western Provinces 15. J. POLLINI (University of Southern California) Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and Early Principate