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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… of woolworking references in the contemporary Augustan poets Vergil, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid. Other extant versions of the Lucretia legend do not mention woolworking; Livy appears to have added Lucretia’s devotion to wool, a tradition in keeping with Augustan propaganda. Woolworking has …
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A study of furor in Republican and Augustan literature
… from the beginnings through the middle of the Augustan Age. The purpose is to show that the complex ideas behind the term furor developed by degrees until the word became a general term for "madness." No attempt in this thesis is made to prove that furor was the exclusive term employed by the …
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AUGUSTAN TRIUMPHS: DISHONORABLE LAURELS IN OVIDS AMORES AND METAMORPHOSES
… This project demonstrates how Ovid manipulates Augustan iconography in order to present the achievements of Augustus as dishonorable.
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Uncoiling the Laocoon: Revealing the Statue Group's Significance in Augustan Rome
Since its rediscovery in Rome in 1506, the Laocoon has raised issues regarding its date, its owner, its status as a Roman copy of a Greek original, and which literary account it reflects. It was not until a telling inscription with the names and patronymics of the artists was found on a statue …
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The Consolidation of Empire: The Augustan Plan for Administrating the Provinces
"The reexamination of well known Augustan documents along with recently discovered inscriptions from Gaul, Spain and Syria reveal the component parts of Augustus' administrative framework and his use of the census as the primary vehicle for imperial control. His use of these allowed the first Roman …
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Politicising Manumission and Freedmen in the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate
… freedmen during the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate by reinterpreting the literary and legal evidence and critically questioning the distorted narratives presented by our biased sources. This reassessment is in line with recent developments in two areas of Roman studies. First, …
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Profit, Poetry, and Politics in Augustan Translation: A Study of the Tonson-Garth 'Metamorphoses' of 1717
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The Augustan poets: their Master's voices? A study of the political views of Vergilius, Horatius and Propertius
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Coins for a legion. An analysis of the coin finds of the Augustan legionary fortress and Flavian canabae legionis at Nijmegen
Contains fulltext : 40928.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Ancient Understanding of Grafting
<p>Images of vegetal life are plentiful in Augustan art but are usually understood as representations of a natural or supernatural world in which humanity has only a minor influence. This study interprets the images of plants as products of horticulture and Roman civilization. More specifically, …
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SAMUEL JOHNSON AND AUGUSTANISM
… time. This paper contextualizes Johnson within Augustanism as a defining framework of the age in which he lived and a movement of which he was a leading figure. Such contextualizing complicates our understanding of Johnson when we discover that there are inconsistencies in his relation to and …
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The Power of Images in the Age of Mussolini
… New excavation campaigns were inaugurated at Augustan sites throughout the peninsula, while the state issued a series of commemorative stamps and medallions focused on ancient Rome. In the same year, Mussolini inaugurated an impressive square named Forum Imperii, situated within the Foro …
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… in state art on the Ara Pacts Augustae, Altar of Augustan Peace, and how traditional rhetorical techniques are at work on the altar. Chapter Three focuses on the political myth as represented on coins from the Senatorial and Imperial mints, the most widely seen rhetorical media in the Principate, …
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The Religious Reforms of Augustus: Innovation & Opportunism
… were in fact a restoration, or whether the Augustan interventions were essentially reformative, innovative and politically motivated. We shall evaluate how the power and status - so lauded in the Res Gestae Divi Augusti - were made manifest in the religious sphere; how the Princeps modified …
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'Poore broaken propertyes' : Rochester and the crisis of aristocratic authority
… specific topics explored are Rochester's use of Augustan wit as a function of aristocratic authority, and his transformation of the pastoral idiom in light of the changing perception of property in the late seventeenth century.
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Satire in Oliver Goldsmith's The citizen of the world
… includes two kinds of satire, one created by the Augustan Age, the other by the Age of Sensibility. Examining the major changes in satire through this method not only illuminates the eighteenth-century satiric tradition but also provides essential background for analysis of Goldsmith's …
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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
… emphasis is on the grotesque revival of post-‐Augustan literature through his grotesque iuncturae acres and debasement of Horace.</p> <p>Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis too has been read as a satire on the Neronian age. I argue it is meant to be read as grotesque and Saturnalian; the negative …
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