Between republic and empire : interpretations of Augustus and his principate / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher ; with contributions by G.W. Bowersock [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A man, a book, and a method: Sir Ronald Syme's Roman revolution after fifty years / H. Galsterer -- The personality of Augustus: reflections on Syme's Roman revolution / Z. Yavetz -- Mommsen and Syme: law and power in the principate of Augustus / J. Linderski -- C. Caesar Divi filius and the formation of the alternative in Rome / C. Meier -- Augustus and the power of tradition: the Augustan principate as binding link between republic and empire / W. Eder -- Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum / T.J. Luce -- Augustus and the evolution of Roman historiography / M. Toher -- Cassius Dio's assessment of Augustus / M. Reinhold and P.M. Swan -- The death of Turnus: Augustan Vergil and the political rival / H.P. Stahl -- Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the ambiguities of encomium / M.J.C. Putnam -- Tristia 2: Ovid and Augustus / S.G. Nugent -- Did Maecenas "fall from favor"?: Augustan literary patronage / G. Williams -- The city adorned: programmatic display at the Aedes concordiae Augustae / B.A. Kellum -- Augustan building programs in the western provinces / W. Mierse -- Man or god: divine assimilation and imitation in the late republic and early principate / J. Pollini -- The Augustales in the Augustan scheme / S.E. Ostrow -- The pontificate of Augustus / G.W. Bowersock -- The imperial policy of Augustus / E.S. Gruen -- Opposition to Augustus / K.A. Raaflaub and L.J. Samons II.

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"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.

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