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Augustan Egypt : the creation of a Roman province
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ISBN: 0415972175 Year: 2005 Volume: 13 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge

Augustan Egypt
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ISBN: 0203943945 1135873690 1135873682 9781135873684 9780203943946 9781135873691 9780415972178 0415972175 9780415512954 0415512956 9781135873646 113587364X Year: 2016 Publisher: London New York

Augustus Caesar
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ISBN: 0203022882 1134364539 1280168749 9780203022887 9780415319355 0415319358 9780415319362 0415319366 9786610168743 6610168741 0415319358 0415319366 9781134364534 9781134364480 1134364482 9781134364527 1134364520 1566196671 9781566196673 9781280168741 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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History sees Augustus Caesar as the first emperor of Rome, whose system of ordered government provided a firm and stable basis for the successive expansion and prosperity of the Roman Empire over the next two centuries. Hailed as restorer of the Republic' and regarded by some as a deity in his own lifetime, Augustus became an object of emulation for many of his successors. This pamphlet reviews the evidence in order to place Augustus firmly in the context of his own times. It explores the background to his spectacular rise to power, his political and imperial reforms, and the creation of the Respublica of Augustus and the legacy left to his successors. By examining the hopes and expectations of his contemporaries and his own personal qualities of statesmanship and unscrupulous ambition, Shotter reveals that the reasons for Augustus' success lie partly in the complexity of the man himself, and partly in the unique nature of the times in which he lived.


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Augustus : introduction to the life of an emperor
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ISBN: 9780521767972 9780521744423 0521767970 0521744423 9781139045575 1139507885 1107225167 1139517414 9786613685438 1139045571 1139514849 1139513915 1139516493 1139518348 1280775041 9781139518345 9781139514842 9781139516495 9781139514842 9781139507882 9781107225169 9781280775048 6613685437 9781139517416 9781139513913 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Augustus, Rome's first emperor, is one of the great figures of world history and one of the most fascinating. In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification. He chronicles the mosaic of vicissitudes, challenges, setbacks and successes that shaped Augustus' life, both public and private. How did he use his power? How did he manage to keep re-inventing himself? What kind of man was he? A transformative leader, Augustus engineered profound change in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world. No one would have expected such vast achievements from the frail and little-known eighteen-year-old who became Caesar's heir amid turmoil and crisis. A mere thirteen years later, after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, he had, in his words, 'power over all things'.

Augustus und die Begründung des römischen Kaisertums
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ISBN: 3050030542 3050073330 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berlin Akademie Verlag

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Der Titel ist in der Reihe "Studienbücher Geschichte und Kultur der Antike" erschienen und in einen darstellenden Teil und eine ergänzende Zusammenstellung relevanter Quellen in deutscher Übersetzung gegliedert. Die Quellensammlung enthält zahlreiche Literaturhinweise und kommentierende Anmerkungen sowie viele Illustrationen, insbesondere Münzabbildungen.

Strabo of Amasia
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ISBN: 1134605617 1280069554 0585449279 0203462181 9780203462188 9780415216722 0415216729 9780585449272 0415216729 9781134605613 9781134605569 1134605560 9781134605606 1134605609 9780415620178 0415620171 9786610069552 6610069557 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routlege

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Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles. It argues for a deeper understanding of the fusion of Greek and Roman elements in the culture of the Roman Empire. Though he wrote in Greek, Strabo must be regarded as an 'Augustan' writer like Virgil or Livy.


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A city of marble : the rhetoric of Augustan Rome
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ISBN: 1611173361 9781611173369 1299852017 9781299852013 1611172772 9781611172775 Year: 2013 Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : Published by the University of South Carolina Press,

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In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.-14 c. e.).Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves on to those most obviously using rhetorical techniques in visual form. She then arrives at those objects least recognizable as rhetorical artifacts, but perhaps most si

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