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The Lost Memoirs of Augustus
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Artikel-Nr:
9781910589427
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.12.2008
Seiten:
230
Autor:
Anton Powell
eBook Typ:
PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem to date from a period at which the wounds of Rome's civil wars were fresh, and the emperor's partisan past might be recalled with discomfort. Existing fragments and testimonia have suggested that the work was apologetic in purpose. In this, the first ever comprehensive study of the subject, a cast of internationally-respected scholars reconstruct aspects of the work, its importance for historians, and its relation to Roman literary genre. The book also contains, by kind permission of Oxford University Press, the fragments and testimonia of the Memoirs as they will appear, newly edited by Christopher Smith, in 'The Fragmentary Roman Historians'.
Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem to date from a period at which the wounds of Rome's civil wars were fresh, and the emperor's partisan past might be recalled with discomfort. Existing fragments and testimonia have suggested that the work was apologetic in purpose. In this, the first ever comprehensive study of the subject, a cast of internationally-respected scholars reconstruct aspects of the work, its importance for historians, and its relation to Roman literary genre. The book also contains, by kind permission of Oxford University Press, the fragments and testimonia of the Memoirs as they will appear, newly edited by Christopher Smith, in 'The Fragmentary Roman Historians'.
Cato and the origins of the memoirTim Cornell Was there a genre of the memoir? Or, Did Augustus know what he was doing?Christopher Pelling Octavian the runaway: defending a military reputation in the Memoirs?Anton Powell Why end at the Cantabrian War?John Rich Sulla's Memoirs and Roman autobiographyChristopher Smith Felicitas and the Memoirs of SullaAlexander Thein Divining a lost text: Augustus' autobiography and the Bios Kaisaros of Nicolaus of DamascusMark Toher Alternative memories: tales from the other side in the civil warKathryn Welch Augustus, Sulla and the supernaturalPeter Wiseman