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Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014 (Hardcover)
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Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014 (Hardcover)
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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.
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