Augustus: From Republic to Empire is the product of a conference entitled AUGUSTUS. 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD – 2000 years of divinity organised on 12 December 2014 by the Institute of Arch
The dramatic story of Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone elsecreated the Roman Empire
Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in western history, is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord, whose only claim to po
Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the ''Meroe Head'' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar''s great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once form
Despite achieving extraordinary fame in his lifetime, when he was widely considered to be one the greatest living British artists and his drawings were thought by John Singer Sargent to be amongst the
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus, was the first Roman emperor and is one of the most iconic figures in world history. Two thousand years after his death, Augustus remains a str
The Life of Augustus, which forms the second book in Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum, has long been a standard work of reference for those interested in the golden age of Rome. This volume offers an edition of the Latin text by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, presented alongside exhaustive scholarly notes. Shuckburgh's edition emphasizes the historical background to passages and draws references from the works of other classical authors. When first published in 1896, this work represented the first edition of its kind in English, and it continues to remain an excellent source of groundwork for classicists and historians.
Apollo's importance in the religion of the Roman state was markedly heightened by the emperor Augustus, who claimed a special affiliation with the god. Contemporary poets variously responded to this appropriation of Phoebus Apollo, both participating in the construction of an imperial symbolism and resisting that ideological project. This book offers a synoptic study of 'Augustan' Apollo in Augustan poetry. Topics explored include the divine self-imaging of late Republican rivals for power, poetic imaginings of Apollo's intervention at the pivotal battle of Actium, how poets 'read' Augustus' new Palatine Temple of Apollo and the deity's role in the reconstituted Saecular Games, and Apollo's key position in the emerging dialectic between poetics - as traditional divine patron of music and literature - and politics - as patron of Augustus. Discussions encompass the major Latin poets (Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid) as well as anonymous voices in poetic lampoons, encomia, and
