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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsDetails of Original Publications; Acknowledgements; Note to the Reader; Abbreviations; Map of the Roman Empire, c. A.D. 14; Introduction: Approaching the Age of Augustus; Introduction to Part I; 1. Imperator Caesar: a Study in Nomenclature, Ronald Syme; 2. Triumvirate and Principate, Fergus Millar; 3. The Powers of Augustus, Jean-Louis Ferrary, trans. Jonathan Edmondson; 4. Augustus, War and Peace, John Rich; 5. Livia and the Womanhood of Rome , Nicholas Purcell; Introduction to Part II; 6. The Political Significance of Augustus' Military Reforms, Kurt A. Raaflaub; 7. Augustus' Administrative Reforms: Pragmatism or Systematic Planning? Werner Eck, trans. Claus Nader; 8. Family and Inheritance in the Augustan Marriage Laws, Andrew Wallace Hadrill; 9. To Honour the Princeps and Worship the Gods: Public Cult, Cult in the Neighbourhoods, and Imperial Cult in Augustan Rome, John Scheid, trans. Jonathan Edmondson; Introduction to Part III; 10. Monuments of the Battle of Actium: Propaganda and Response, Tonio Holscher, trans. Claus Nader; 11. Augustan Cleopatras, Maria Wyke; 12. Cybele, Virgil, and Augustus, T. P. Wiseman; 13. Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum, T. J. Luce; Introduction to Part IV; 14. Colonia Augusta Emerita, Capital of Lusitania, Walter Trillmich; 15. The Cities of the Greek World under Augustus, Glen Bowersock; Chronology; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index.
