Between republic and empire : interpretations of Augustus and his principate /

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Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1990.
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 495 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11108728
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Other authors / contributors:Raaflaub, Kurt A.
Toher, Mark.
Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-
ISBN:9780520914513
0520914511
0585193460
9780585193465
0520084470
0520066766
9780520066762
9780520084476
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:"The Romans themselves held sharply divided opinions about Augustus's regime. Augustus seized power through violence and civil war and profoundly transformed state and society; but he also pacified the empire, stabilized the government, and remedied fatal weaknesses of the republic. Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship -- historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics -- the nineteen contributors to this volume offer penetrating analyses of questions fundamental to a new assessment, bringing us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Between republic and empire. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1990 0520084470
Standard no.:2312534
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The Augustan Age (44 BCE-14 CE) is a period of cardinal importance in Roman history; the classic work on this period is Ronald Syme's masterpiece, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939). This collection of essays was intended to honor Syme and to bring together examples of the latest thinking on the period's developments--political, literary, artistic, and religious. Unlike Raaflaub's earlier collection of essays, Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (CH, Sep'87), this volume is very uneven. In terms of scholarship, there are three short, brilliant papers (by Linderski, Luce, and Bowersock), six longer, interesting discussions, and ten papers that are wrong-headed, or pedestrian, or both. The contributions also range in accessibility from pieces a lower-division undergraduate would find easy to comprehend to some that are impenetrable without an all-out effort. The illustrations and indexes are excellent, and each paper has its own bibliography. -M. G. Morgan, University of Texas at Austin

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