[publicclassics] Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14–2014

[Kai Brodersen]

The following edited volume on receptions of Augustus from his death to 
the present day is now available from Cambridge University Press:

Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14–2014
Edited by Penelope J. Goodman, University of Leeds
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/afterlives-of-augustus-ad-142014/8EB64DC9B3E9D7BA07EED94A3157C1FE

Table of contents:

     Best of emperors or subtle tyrant? Augustus the ambivalent. 
Penelope J. Goodman
     The last days of Augustus. Alison E. Cooley
     Seneca’s Augustus: (re)calibrating the imperial model for a young 
prince. Steven J. Green
     Embodying the Augustan in Suetonius and beyond. Patrick Cook
     The First Emperor? Augustus and Julius Caesar as rival founders of 
the principate. Joseph Geiger
     Julian Augustus on Augustus: Octavian in the Caesars. Shaun Tougher
     Augustus: the harbinger of Peace. Orosius’ reception of Augustus in 
Historiae Adversus Paganos. Michael C. Sloan
     The Byzantine Augustus: the reception of the first Roman emperor in 
the Byzantine tradition. Kosta Simić
     Augustus and the Carolingians. Jürgen Strothmann
     Augustus as visionary: the legend of the Augustan altar in S. Maria 
in Aracoeli, Rome. Kerry Boeye and Nandini B. Pandey
     From peacemaker to tyrant: the changing image of Augustus in 
Italian Renaissance political thought. Robert Black
     Augustus in Morisot’s ‘Book 8’ of the Fasti. Bobby Xinyue
     The proconsul and the emperor: John Buchan’s Augustus. James T. Chlup
     In search of a new princeps: Günther Birkenfeld and his Augustus 
novels, 1934–1984. Martin Lindner
     Augustus in the rhetorical tradition. Kathleen S. Lamp
     The Parthian arch of Augustus and its legacy: memory manipulation 
in imperial Rome and modern scholarship. Maggie L. Popkin
     Augustus and the politics of the past in television documentaries 
today. Fiona Hobden
     Augusto reframed: exhibiting Augustus in bimillennial Rome. Anna 
Clareborn
     Augustus’ (non)reception in America and its context. Karl Galinsky


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Dr. Penelope J. Goodman,
Senior Lecturer in Roman History,
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies,
Michael Sadler Building (room 1.40),
University of Leeds,
Woodhouse Lane,
Leeds, LS2 9JT.

0113 343 3536
p.j.goodman at leeds.ac.uk

http://augustus2014.com