Lost Memoirs of Augustus and the Development of Roman Autobiography

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

AvC. Smith,Powell, A.,Tim Cornell,Christopher Pelling,Alexander Thein,T.P. Wiseman,Mark Toher,John Rich,Kathryn Welch

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-06-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoman World
Antal sidor239
FörlagClassical Press of Wales
ISBN9781914535703

Christopher J. Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UKRI), and Chair of the National Library of Scotland. He was Director of the British School at Rome (2009-2017). Select publications include: Early Rome and Latium: Economy and Society c. 1000-500 BC (1996); The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (2006); The Roman Kingship (2020). He has edited Sovereignty: A Global Perspective (2022); co-edited Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Oratory (2011), Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius (2012), Transformations of Value: Lived Religions and the Economy (2019), Middle Republican Rome - from the conquest of Veii to the battle of Zama (in Italian; 2021).

The Memoirs of Augustus: testimonia and fragments, by Christopher Smith. Cato the Elder and the origins of Roman autobiography, by Tim Cornell. Was there an ancient genre of 'autobiography'? Or, did Augustus know what he was doing?, by Christopher Pelling.Sulla's Memoirs, by Christopher Smith. Felicitas and the memoirs of Sulla and Augustus, by Alexander Thein.Augustus, Sulla and the supernatural, by T. P. Wiseman.Diving a lost text: Augustus' autobiography and the [bios kaisaros] of Nicolaus of Damascus, by Mark Toher.Cantabrian closure: Augustus' Spanish war and the ending of his memoirs, by John Rich. Augustus' age of apology: an analysis of the Memoirs and an argument for two further fragments, by Anton Powell. Alternative memoirs: tales from the 'other side' of the civil war, by Kathryn Welch