The Alternative Augustan Age
Published on 27. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-19-767365-2 (ISBN)
Description
The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and provocatively shifts the focus off Augustus while still looking at events of his time. Contributors uncover the perspectives and contributions of a range of individuals other than the princeps. Not all thought they were living in the "Augustan Age." Not all took their cues from Augustus. In their self-display or ideas for reform, some anticipated Augustus. Others found ways to oppose him that also helped to shape the future of their community. The volume challenges the very idea of an "Augustan Age" by breaking down traditional turning points and showing the continuous experimentation and development of these years to be in continuity with earlier Roman culture. In showcasing absences of Augustus and giving other figures their due, the papers here make a seemingly familiar period startlingly new.
Reviews / Votes
...so great and distinct... * Lindsay Powell, Ancient Warfare * The Alternative Augustan Age, has the desire to explore the 'underside' of this crucial period, and is appropriately dedicated to the memory of Powell...this long period of history has subsequently been treated in either a homogenized or a linear way, which not only flattens out nuance, but promotes teleological interpretations. This volume instead shifts the spotlight onto other actors, not just by giving them their moment in the sun, but by not defining their importance in relation to Augustus. This allows us to see a 'a series of alternatives- alternative spaces, alternative worldviews, and alternative narratives'. * Greece & Rome *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-767365-2 (9780197673652)
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Josiah Osgood is Chair and Professor of Classics at Georgetown University (Washington DC). He has published several books on Roman history including Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press) and Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War (Oxford University Press).
Kit Morrell is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Her previous publications include Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press).
Associate Professor Kathryn Welch teaches Roman history at the University of Sydney (Sydney NSW Australia). Her most recent publications include Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Classical Press of Wales) and (as editor) Appian's Roman History: empire and civil war (CPW). With Anton Powell, she edited Julius Caesar as Artful
Reporter (CPW).
Kit Morrell is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Her previous publications include Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press).
Associate Professor Kathryn Welch teaches Roman history at the University of Sydney (Sydney NSW Australia). Her most recent publications include Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Classical Press of Wales) and (as editor) Appian's Roman History: empire and civil war (CPW). With Anton Powell, she edited Julius Caesar as Artful
Reporter (CPW).
Content
Preface
List of contributors
Table of figures 1. The alternative Augustan age Hannah Mitchell, Kit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, and Kathryn Welch
2. Augustus as magpie Kit Morrell
3. Hopes and aspirations: res publica, leges et iura, and alternatives at Rome
Eleanor Cowan
4. Rebuilding Romulus' Senate: The lectio senatus of 18 BCE
Andrew Pettinger
5. The good wife: fate, fortune, and familia in Augustan Rome
Bronwyn Hopwood
6. At magnus Caesar, and Yet! Social resistance against Augustan legislation
Werner Eck
7. C. Asinius Pollio and the politics of cosmopolitanism
Joel Allen
8. For Rome or for Augustus? Triumphs beyond the imperial family in the post-civil war period
Carsten Hjort Lange 9. Egyptian victories: the praefectus Aegypti and the presentation of military success in the age of Augustus
Wolfgang Havener
10. African alternatives
Josiah Osgood
11. The reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the idea of "serving the times"
Hannah Mitchell
12. How do you solve a problem like Marcus Agrippa?
James Tan
13. Acting "republican" under Augustus: the coin types of the gens Antistia
Megan Goldman-Petri
14. Saecular discourse: qualitative periodization in first century BCE Rome
Paul Hay
15. Maecenas and the Augustan poets: the background of a cultural ambition
Philippe Le Doze 16. Gauls on top: provincials ruling Rome on the shield of Aeneas
Geraldine Herbert-Brown
17. The rise of the centumviral court in the Augustan age: an alternative arena of aristocratic competition
Matthew Roller
18. Shields of Virtue(s)
Kathryn Welch
19. The popular reception of Augustus and the self-infantilization of Rome's citizenry
Tom Hillard
20. Inventing the imperial Senate
Amy Russell Bibliography
List of contributors
Table of figures 1. The alternative Augustan age Hannah Mitchell, Kit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, and Kathryn Welch
2. Augustus as magpie Kit Morrell
3. Hopes and aspirations: res publica, leges et iura, and alternatives at Rome
Eleanor Cowan
4. Rebuilding Romulus' Senate: The lectio senatus of 18 BCE
Andrew Pettinger
5. The good wife: fate, fortune, and familia in Augustan Rome
Bronwyn Hopwood
6. At magnus Caesar, and Yet! Social resistance against Augustan legislation
Werner Eck
7. C. Asinius Pollio and the politics of cosmopolitanism
Joel Allen
8. For Rome or for Augustus? Triumphs beyond the imperial family in the post-civil war period
Carsten Hjort Lange 9. Egyptian victories: the praefectus Aegypti and the presentation of military success in the age of Augustus
Wolfgang Havener
10. African alternatives
Josiah Osgood
11. The reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the idea of "serving the times"
Hannah Mitchell
12. How do you solve a problem like Marcus Agrippa?
James Tan
13. Acting "republican" under Augustus: the coin types of the gens Antistia
Megan Goldman-Petri
14. Saecular discourse: qualitative periodization in first century BCE Rome
Paul Hay
15. Maecenas and the Augustan poets: the background of a cultural ambition
Philippe Le Doze 16. Gauls on top: provincials ruling Rome on the shield of Aeneas
Geraldine Herbert-Brown
17. The rise of the centumviral court in the Augustan age: an alternative arena of aristocratic competition
Matthew Roller
18. Shields of Virtue(s)
Kathryn Welch
19. The popular reception of Augustus and the self-infantilization of Rome's citizenry
Tom Hillard
20. Inventing the imperial Senate
Amy Russell Bibliography