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Augustus and the destruction of history : the politics of the past in early imperial Rome / edited by Ingo Gildenhard, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener and Louise Hodgson.
Van Pelt Library DG278.3 .A948 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge classical journal. Supplementary volume ; 41.
- Cambridge classical journal, proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society supplementary volume ; 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Rome.
- Historiography.
- Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-68 A.D.
- Rome.
- Politics and government.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- vii, 367 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge Philological Society, [2019]
- Summary:
- 'Augustus and the Destruction of History' explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of history and time in response to novel realities, such as civil bloodshed and the Augustan principate.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Attending to the past : on the politics of time in ancient Rome / Ingo Gildenhard, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener and Louise Hodgson
- A. (One possible) order out of chaos
- 1. Libera Res Publica : the road not taken / Louise Hodgson
- 2. History wars : who avenged Caesar and why does it matter? / Kathryn Welch
- B. Augustan plots
- 3. Rupture and repair : patterning time in discourse and practice (from Sallust to Augustus and beyond) / Benjamin Biesinger
- 4. The succession of empires and the Augustan Res Publica / Ulrich Gotter
- 5. Augustus and the end of "triumphalist history" / Wolfgang Havener
- C. The histories of empowered subalterns 6. Family history in Augustan Rome / Josiah Osgood
- 7. The Augustan senate and the reconfiguration of time on the Fasti Capitolini / Amy Russell
- D. Historical palimpsests
- 8. Flooding the Roman forum / Hannah Price
- 9. Dust in the wind : late republican history in the Aeneid / Dusan Lower
- E. Epilogue
- 10. Trojan plots : conceptions of history in Catullus, Virgil and Tacitus / Johannes Geisthardt and Ingo Gildenhard.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-341) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780956838162
- 0956838162
- OCLC:
- 1108694131
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