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Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense
controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that
accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into
the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here
analyse how different authors and agents (individual and
collective) developed specific conceptions of history and
articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to
position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan
normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern
endeavours to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention
to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency - not least to
challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and
his principate and its representation in historiographical
discourse, ancient and modern. Some of the most iconic texts and
monuments from ancient Rome receive fresh discussion here,
including the Forum Romanum and the Forum of Augustus, Virgil's
Aeneid and the Fasti Capitolini.
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