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Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014

13 Friday Apr 2018

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Four years and a lot of hard work after the Commemorating Augustus conference, I’m pleased to be able to announce that the edited volume arising from it is being published this month. The volume aims to trace Augustus’ reception history from his death to the present day, and it is entitled Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014.

Afterlives of Augustus front cover

A full listing is available now on the Cambridge University Press catalogue. The official publication date is 26 April, although in fact a few advance copies were spotted on the CUP stand at the Classical Association conference a few days ago. You can read some excerpts, including about half of my own introductory chapter, here.

The full table of contents reads as follows:

  1. Best of emperors or subtle tyrant? Augustus the ambivalent. Penelope J. Goodman
  2. The last days of Augustus. Alison E. Cooley
  3. Seneca’s Augustus: (re)calibrating the imperial model for a young prince. Steven J. Green
  4. Embodying the Augustan in Suetonius and beyond. Patrick Cook
  5. The First Emperor? Augustus and Julius Caesar as rival founders of the principate. Joseph Geiger
  6. Julian Augustus on Augustus: Octavian in the Caesars. Shaun Tougher
  7. Augustus: the harbinger of Peace. Orosius’ reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos. Michael C. Sloan
  8. The Byzantine Augustus: the reception of the first Roman emperor in the Byzantine tradition. Kosta Simić
  9. Augustus and the Carolingians. Jürgen Strothmann
  10. Augustus as visionary: the legend of the Augustan altar in S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. Kerry Boeye and Nandini B. Pandey
  11. From peacemaker to tyrant: the changing image of Augustus in Italian Renaissance political thought. Robert Black
  12. Augustus in Morisot’s ‘Book 8’ of the Fasti. Bobby Xinyue
  13. The proconsul and the emperor: John Buchan’s Augustus. James T. Chlup
  14. In search of a new princeps: Günther Birkenfeld and his Augustus novels, 1934–1984. Martin Lindner
  15. Augustus in the rhetorical tradition. Kathleen S. Lamp
  16. The Parthian arch of Augustus and its legacy: memory manipulation in imperial Rome and modern scholarship. Maggie L. Popkin
  17. Augustus and the politics of the past in television documentaries today. Fiona Hobden
  18. Augusto reframed: exhibiting Augustus in bimillennial Rome. Anna Clareborn
  19. Augustus’ (non)reception in America and its context. Karl Galinsky

Augustus in CA News

14 Monday Jul 2014

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The latest copy of Classical Association News soared through my letter-box this morning, complete with a little article which I wrote for it about the Augustan bimillennial commemorations going on across the world this year:

My CA news articleThis is very welcome timing, because it means this piece has reached its readers just in time to alert them to one of those events – my own Commemorating Augustus conference – with two days still to go before late booking fees kick in. If you haven’t booked your place yet and would like to do so, you have until midnight on 16th July to get yourself set up! Full registration and payment details are available here.

As for the article, if you’d like to read the whole thing, you can take out membership of the Classical Association, which includes a twice-yearly copy of CA News, here. I would highly recommend CA membership anyway as a great way to keep in touch with new developments and events in the world of Classics, and with other people who share the same interest. But obviously I have a particular vested interest in recommending it just now! I’d also like to thank the CA News editor, Tony Keen,for escorting my article into print, and for providing the excellent accompanying image.