Between Republic and Empire

Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher, Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520084476
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520914513
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editors' Preface
• A Man, a Book, and a Method: Sir Ronald Syme's Roman Revolution After Fifty Years
• The Personality of Augustus: Reflections on Syme's Roman Revolution
• Mommsen and Syme: Law and Power in the Principate of Augustus
• C. Caesar Divi filius and the Formation of the Alternative in Rome
• Augustus and the Power of Tradition: The Augustan Principate as Binding Link between Republic and Empire
• Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum
• Augustus and the Evolution of Roman Historiography
• Cassius Dio's Assessment of Augustus
• The Death of Turnus: Augustan Vergil and the Political Rival
• Putnam, M. C. J.
• Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the Ambiguities of Encomium
• Tristia 2: Ovid and Augustus
• Did Maecenas "Fall from Favor"? Augustan Literary Patronage
• The City Adorned: Programmatic Display at the Aedes Concordiae Augustae
• Augustan Building Programs in the Western Provinces
• Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and Early Principate
• The Augustales in the Augustan Scheme
• The Pontificate of Augustus
• The Imperial Policy of Augustus
• Opposition to Augustus
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Persons and Places
• Index of Scholars
• Index of Sources