The Alternative Augustan Age

Josiah Osgood is Chair and Professor of Classics at Georgetown University (Washington DC). He has published several books on Roman history including Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press) and Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War (Oxford University Press).Kit Morrell is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Her previous publications include Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press).Associate Professor Kathryn Welch teaches Roman history at the University of Sydney (Sydney NSW Australia). Her most recent publications include Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Classical Press of Wales) and (as editor) Appian's Roman History: empire and civil war (CPW). With Anton Powell, she edited Julius Caesar as ArtfulReporter (CPW).

• PrefaceList of contributorsTable of figures 1. The alternative Augustan age Hannah Mitchell, Kit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, and Kathryn Welch2. Augustus as magpie Kit Morrell3. Hopes and aspirations: res publica, leges et iura, and alternatives at RomeEleanor Cowan4. Rebuilding Romulus' Senate: The lectio senatus of 18 BCEAndrew Pettinger5. The good wife: fate, fortune, and familia in Augustan RomeBronwyn Hopwood6. At magnus Caesar, and Yet! Social resistance against Augustan legislationWerner Eck7. C. Asinius Pollio and the politics of cosmopolitanismJoel Allen8. For Rome or for Augustus? Triumphs beyond the imperial family in the post-civil war periodCarsten Hjort Lange 9. Egyptian victories: the praefectus Aegypti and the presentation of military success in the age of AugustusWolfgang Havener10. African alternativesJosiah Osgood11. The reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the idea of "serving the times"Hannah Mitchell12. How do you solve a problem like Marcus Agrippa?James Tan13. Acting "republican" under Augustus: the coin types of the gens AntistiaMegan Goldman-Petri14. Saecular discourse: qualitative periodization in first century BCE RomePaul Hay15. Maecenas and the Augustan poets: the background of a cultural ambitionPhilippe Le Doze 16. Gauls on top: provincials ruling Rome on the shield of AeneasGeraldine Herbert-Brown17. The rise of the centumviral court in the Augustan age: an alternative arena of aristocratic competitionMatthew Roller18. Shields of Virtue(s)Kathryn Welch19. The popular reception of Augustus and the self-infantilization of Rome's citizenryTom Hillard20. Inventing the imperial SenateAmy Russell Bibliography

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