Augustan Culture
Title | Augustan Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Galinsky |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1998-02-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780691058900 |
Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.
Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
Title | Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. S. Spawforth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139505025 |
This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate.
Augustus
Title | Augustus PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Galinsky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2012-07-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521744423 |
In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification.
Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy
Title | Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Marks |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472132679 |
Combines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian
The Augustan Court
Title | The Augustan Court PDF eBook |
Author | R. O. Bucholz |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804720809 |
Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.
Augustan Rome
Title | Augustan Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2018-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472528999 |
Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and environment manipulated by Augustus are explored, along with reactions to that manipulation. Emphasising the role and impact of art and architecture of the time, and on Roman attitudes and values, Augustan Rome explains how the victory of Octavian at Actium transformed Rome and Roman life. This thought-provoking yet concise volume sets political changes in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome.
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus
Title | The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Zanker |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780472081240 |
Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar