Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus

by Karl Galinsky

Overview

Historians, classicists, literature scholars, and historians of art and architecture describe the time and place when the young heir to Caesar ruled the known (to the Romans) world in the first century. They explore political history, intellectual and social developments, the emperor's impact, art and the city, Augustan literature, and Herod and the Jewish experience of Augustan rule. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900521003932
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/12/2005
Series:	Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Illustration	vii
	List of Color Plates	xi
	List of Contributors	xiii
	Preface	xvii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Political History
1	Augustus and the Power of Tradition	13
2	Augustus and the Making of the Principate	33
Part 2	Intellectual and Social Developments
3	Mutatas Formas: The Augustan Transformation of Roman Knowledge	55
4	Romans in the Roman World	85
5	Provincial Perspective	106
6	Women in the Time of Augustus	130
Part 3	The Emperor's Impact
7	The Emperor as Impresario: Producing the Pageantry of Power	151
8	Augustus and Roman Religion: Continuity, Conservatism, and Innovation	175
Part 4	Art and the City
9	Semblance and Storytelling in Augustan Rome	197
10	Making Rome a World City	234
11	Augustan Domestic Interiors: Propaganda or Fashion?	264
Part 5	Augustan Literature
12	Learned Eyes: Poets, Viewers, Image Makers	281
13	Augustan Poetry and Augustanism	306
14	Poets in the New Milieu: Realigning	321
15	Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses as World Literature	340
Part 6	Epilogue as Prologue
16	Herod and the Jewish Experience of Augustan Rule	361
	Select Bibliography and Works Cited	389
	Index	401

Editorial Reviews

“Wide ranging in scope with clear and engagingly written chapters, each having suggestions for further reading, this book will appeal to students and scholars alike. Highly recommended.”
Choice

"The sixteen essays in the volume bring together some of the most distinguished contemporary critics of the Augustan Age, and serious effort is invested so that each voice acknowledge the arguments advanced in as many of the contributions in the volume as possible."
Ordia Prima, Sophia Papaioannou, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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