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Galinsky (Univ. of Texas at Austin) has brought together an impressive group of 16 experts on Augustus who discuss Rome's first emperor and his rule from several perspectives: political, religious, literary, artistic, intellectual, social, and personal. Although previous works of this nature, such as Fergus Millar and Erich Segal's Caesar Augustus (1984), primarily concentrated on Augustus and Rome, this book, in addition to similarly focused chapters, also includes important contributions on provincials and their relationship to Augustan Rome. Other topics include women in the Augustan period, Augustus's theatricality, and interior decoration during the Augustan age. In addition to numerous drawings and black-and-white and color photographs, all of excellent quality, the work contains four maps, a Julio-Claudian stemma, and a time line of Augustus's life. 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. It would form an excellent complement to any recent narrative biography of Augustus, such as Pat Southern's Augustus (CH, Mar'99, 36-4048), or as a text for courses on the Augustan Principate at the undergraduate or graduate levels. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. I. Curtis University of Georgia
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