Author: Karl Galinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: culture, augustan
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1998-01-26
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0691058903
ISBN-13: 9780691058900
Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar’s reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies throughout Western history. Although much research has been done on individual facets of Augustan culture, Karl Galinsky’s book is the first in decades to present a unified overview, one that brings together political and social history, art, literature, architecture, and religion. Weaving analysis and narrative throughout a richly illustrated text, Galinsky provides not only an enjoyable accou
Author: Oliver Elton
Publisher: Barzun Press
Keywords: ages, augustan
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1409784606
ISBN-13: 9781409784609
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: J. Bert Lott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: rome, augustan, neighborhoods
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2004-04-19
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521828279
ISBN-13: 9780521828277
This volume investigates the neighborhoods of ancient Rome during the reign of the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE). Focusing on a group of neighborhood-based voluntary associations that were important political and social communities for the city’s diverse population of slaves and ex-slaves, it locates the Augustan neighborhoods within the broader context of the history of Rome. John Bert Lott stresses their importance as physical and cultural divisions of the city and investigates the distinctive relationship between local neighborhoods and Augustus himself. An inter
Author: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: paperbacks, university, vision, augustan
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1974-06
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0416709702
ISBN-13: 9780416709704
Author: Richard F. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reception, augustan, virgil
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2001-03-26
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 0521782880
ISBN-13: 9780521782883
This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden’s 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology’s rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbea
Author: Mark Loveridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: fable, augustan, history
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-01-13
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521630622
ISBN-13: 9780521630627
This book explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical antiquity to the end of the English eighteenth century and beyond. Tracing the impact of classical models on verse and moral fables of the eighteenth century, and studying the use of the fable by major writers--including Dryden, Pope, Swift, Gay and Cowper--in their historical and literary contexts, Mark Loveridge offers the first full account of a highly significant form of English and European literature.
Author: Ian A. Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: england, augustan, crime, literature
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1991-03-22
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0415022312
ISBN-13: 9780415022316
Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals. While the extension of the legal system formalised the power of the state to categorise and punish deviance, writers repeatedly confronted the problematic nature of legal authority and the unstable idea of the criminal. Some of this commentary was supportive, some was subversive and resistant, uncovering the complexity of issues the law sought to ignore. Ian Bell’s investigation of the diverse represe
