Augustus / edited by Jonathan Edmondson.

Contributor Edmondson, Jonathan, editor of compilation.

ImprintEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

Descriptionxxviii, 543 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Note:First published in hardback in 2009.

Note:Introduction : approaching the age of Augustus -- Imperator Caesar : a study in nomeclature / Ronald Syme -- Triumvirate and principate / Fergus Millar -- The powers of Augustus / Jean-Louis Ferrary, trans. Jonathan Edmondson -- Augustus, war and peace / J.W. Rich -- Livia and the womanhood of Rome / Nicholas Purcell -- The political significance of Augustus' military reforms / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The administrative reforms of Augustus : pragmatism or systematic planning? / Werner Eck, trans. Claus Nader -- Family and inheritance in the Augustan marriage laws / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- To honour the Princeps and venerage the gods : public cult, neighbourhood cults, and imperial cult in Augustan Rome / John Scheid, trans. Jonathan Edmondson -- Monuments of the Battle of Actium : propaganda and response / Tonio Hölscher, trans. Claus Nader -- Meretrix regina : Augustan Cleopatras / Maria Wyke -- Cybele, Vergil and Augustus / T.P. Wiseman -- Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum / T.J. Luce -- Colonia Augusta Emerita, capital of Lusitania / Walter Trillmich, trans. Claus Nader -- The cities of the Greek world under Augustus / Glen Bowersock.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-530) and index.

Note:This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.

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