Bibliograph

Augustus and the destruction of history, Various Authors, The Politics of the Past in Early Imperial Rome

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Augustus and the destruction of history, Various Authors, The Politics of the Past in Early Imperial Rome

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Augustus and the destruction of history

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Various Authors

Summary

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyze how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern endeavors to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency - not least to challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and his principate and its representation in historiographical discourse, ancient and modern. Some of the most iconic texts and monuments from ancient Rome receive fresh discussion here, including the Forum Romanum and the Forum of Augustus, Virgil's Aeneid and the Fasti Capitolini

Target audience

adult

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