TY  - BOOK
ED  - Goodman, Penelope J.
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14–2014
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Influence
KW  - Augustus ; Emperor of Rome ; 63 B.C.-14 A.D ; Influence
KW  - Rome ; Civilization
KW  - Rome ; Politics and government ; 30 B.C.-68 A.D
KW  - Rome ; History ; Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
KW  - Rome
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization
AB  - The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014 commemorated not only the end of his life but also the beginning of a two-thousand-year reception history. This volume addresses the range and breadth of that history. Beginning with the Emperor's death and continuing through Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and early modernity to the present day, chapters address political positioning, religious mythologisation, philosophy, rhetoric, narratives, memory, and material embodiment. As they collectively reveal, Augustus has meant radically different things from one time and place to another, and even to some individual commentators as the circumstances around them changed. The weight of established narratives has often also shaped those of subsequent generations, with or without their conscious awareness. The book outlines and analyses the major themes in Augustus' reception history, clarifying the cultural and historiographical issues at stake and providing a platform for further scholarship
SN  - 9781108529167
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529167
DO  - 10.1017/9781108529167
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Penelope J. Goodman
ID  - 1022343343
ER  -