Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Augustus"”.
-
Divus Augustus Pater: Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus
… and Society I.241). No one can deny that Augustus' "Roman revolution," to borrow a phrase from Syme, required such charisma. But while other republican leaders had possessed the same quality (e.g. Marius, Sulla, Julius Caesar), Augustus' revolutionary measures, unlike theirs, outlived the …
-
Tiberius in the Reign of Augustus
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114683.pdf: 6893683 bytes, checksum: 0ba64791c51b731f5019d1329ec0a20f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
-
The Religious Reforms of Augustus: Innovation & Opportunism
… analyse the religious policies and reforms of Augustus and seek to evaluate how, through a process of innovation and opportunism, the Princeps successfully appropriated the institutions and offices of the religious estate for the benefit of himself and his family. Augustus states he restored 82 …
-
The social and political views of Orestes Augustus Brownson
A work in Nineteenth-century American intellectual history, this dissertation considers the views of Orestes Brownson relating to the intellectual, spiritual, and social activities and changes within the United States during Brownson's lifetime (1803-1876). Brownson is revealed as a consistent …
-
"Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's ""Georgia Scenes"" Complete: A Scholarly Text"
… texts for the nineteen sketches collected in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's seminal work of early American humor and realism, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic (1835). Longstreet did not read page proofs for the error-filled first edition, and …
-
"Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's ""georgia Scenes"" Complete: A Scholarly Text"
… texts for the nineteen sketches collected in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's seminal work of early American humor and realism, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic (1835). Longstreet did not read page proofs for the error-filled first edition, and …
-
Augustus, Justinian, and the Artistic Transformation of the Roman Emperor.
… Emperor, Gaius Octavian Caesar, best known as Augustus, and Justinianus, the greatest Roman Emperor. More than 500 years separates these two men, whose only connection, at first sight, is that both served as Roman Emperor. I will analyze each piece of art, discuss its history, determine what …
-
The medical profession in the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian
To write a social history of the Roman Empire which does justice to its variety is an almost impossible task and the brilliant essay of Rostovtseff has found few continuators. Historians have preferred to concentrate upon three approaches which must be combined in a general survey but which in a …
-
Violence and state response in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius
… which evolved during the course of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius were a direct response to the violence of the Late Republic. They were to a large extent, new and revolutionary, but were not caused by the violence of the Late Republic: rather they were developed as part of the new political …
-
Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors
… weariness following decades of civil war, Augustus founded the Principate on the notion that the traditions of the Republic had been restored and that Augustus was not a monarch but an ordinary citizen serving his nation. This modest image of the emperor was characterized by his ceremonial …
-
Resistance to the Rise of the Principate: An Analysis of Literary Allusions to Augustus’ Rivals
<p>This dissertation asserts that opposition to Augustus and the establishment of the Principate was pervasive and originating from all social strata. After examining incidents of political resistance and social unrest, the project analyzes literary allusions to those who were killed or exiled …
-
Augustus Hopkins Strong and Ethical Monism as a Means of Reconciling Christian Theology and Modern Thought
… the role of ethical monism in the theology of Augustus Hopkins Strong. Chapter 1 discusses some of the reasons for examining Strong's theology and some of the difficulties entailed in such a study. Chapter 2 surveys the life of Strong up until the time when he returned to Rochester Theological …
-
The Shadow of the comet : divine patronage in the rise of Augustus by Dora Y. Gao.
This thesis explores the appearance alleged by ancient sources of a comet over Rome in 44 B.C. and its role in the use and abuse of divine patronage in the rise of the young Octavian between 44 and 27 B.C. The comet was concluded to have actually occurred through an analysis involving Poisson …
-
Standing by the standards: military rank and social status in the Roman west from Augustus to Diocletian
This thesis broadly conceived is about the relationship between military and civil society in the time of the Roman Principate. It is about making sense of the tensions experienced by the soldiers and veterans of the Roman army between their lives as milites and as cives. This thesis weaves …
-
AUGUSTAN TRIUMPHS: DISHONORABLE LAURELS IN OVIDS AMORES AND METAMORPHOSES
Over the course of an extraordinary life, Augustus amassed an unprecedented collection of honors and accolades for his service to Rome. The wealth of extant literature during his lifetime offers a rich opportunity to investigate the circumstances in which Augustus flourished. This project analyzes …
-
Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… was highly prominent within Roman politics. Augustus drew heavily on the rhetoric of reproduction as he refashioned the Republic into a hereditary dynasty and staged a ‘rebirth’ of Rome after the civil wars. My thesis therefore focuses on Ovid’s intervention in wider Augustan narratives …
-
IL FORO DI AUGUSTO. ARCHITETTURA E DECORAZIONE ARCHITETTONICA DEI PORTICI E DELLE ESEDRE
… decoration of the porticoes of the Forum of Augustus, through a reconstructive study based on the study of the architectural materials and the walls still in place.
-
'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… emphasize the relationship between the gods and Augustus faded away. Chapter four examines the popularization of the Augustan political myth and depiction of citizenships on the altars of the Lares Augusti, that is, altars dedicated by the plebs, slaves, and women at neighborhood crossroads to …
-
Dea Roma and the Roman virtues : a comparative study in the policy and practice of Deified abstractions
… from the second century BC to the reign of Augustus. In the east the institution of her cult was the result of expanding Roman influence in the region, and served as a means for people to conceptualise the presence of Roman power. In contrast to this, her worship in the west, as part of the …
Page 1 of 6