Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate

520 Pages·1990·12.46 MB·English

by  Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher, Glen Warren Bowersock

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Between Republic and Empire:
Interpretations of Augustus
and His Principate

Between Republic
and Empire
Interpretations of Augustus and
His Principate
edited by
Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher
with contributions by
G. W. Bowersock, W. Eder, H. Galsterer, E. 5. Gruen,
B. A. Kellum, J. Linderski, T. J. Luce, C. Meier, W. Mierse,
S. G. Nugent, S. E. Ostrow, J. Pollini, M. C. J. Putnam,
K. A. Raaflaub and L. J. Samons II, M. Reinhold
and P. M. Swan, H. P. Stahl, M. Toher,
G. Williams, Z. Yavetz
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley . Los Angeles . Oxford
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
Oxford, England
© 1990 by
The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Between republic and empire: interpretations of Augustus and his principate / edited by
Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher ; with contributions by G. W. Bowersock
... [et al.].
. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-520-06676-6 (alk. paper)
1. Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. 2. Rome—History—
Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. 3. Roman emperors— Biography.
I. Raaflaub, Kurt A. II. Toher, Mark. III. Bowersock, G. W. (Glen
Warren), 1936-
DG279.B43 1990
937'.07'0924—dc 19
[B] 89-4788
CIP
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123 45 678 9
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American Na-
tional Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Ma-
terials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.€9 ™
The editors and contributors
dedicate this volume to
the memory of
SIR RONALD SYME

Contents
Editors’ Preface xi
1. H. GALSTERER (Technische Universitat, Aachen)
A Man, a Book, and a Method: Sir Ronald Syme’s
Roman Revolution after Fifty Years
2. Z. YAVETZ (University of Tel Aviv and Queens
College, New York)
The Personality of Augustus: Reflections on Syme’s
Roman Revolution 21
3. J. Linperski (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
Mommsen and Syme: Law and Power in the
Principate of Augustus 42
4. C. MEIER (Universitat München)
C. Caesar Divi filius and the Formation of
the Alternative in Rome 54
Vili Contents
CA W. EDER (Freie Universitat, West Berlin)
Augustus and the Power of Tradition:
The Augustan Principate as Binding Link
between Republic and Empire 71
ON T. J. Luce (Princeton University)
Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum 123
^4 M. TonzR (Union College)
Augustus and the Evolution of
Roman Historiography 139
oo M. REINHOLD (Boston University) and
P. M. Swan (University of Saskatchewan)
Cassius Dio's Assessment of Augustus 155
. H. P. SrAnr (University of Pittsburgh)
The Death of Turnus: Augustan Vergil and
the Political Rival 174
10. M. C. J. PUTNAM (Brown University)
Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the
Ambiguities of Encomium 212
11. $. G. NUGENT (Brown University)
Tristia 2: Ovid and Augustus 239
12. G. WirLIAMS (Yale University)
Did Maecenas “Fall from Favor"? Augustan
Literary Patronage 258
13. B. A. KELLUM (Smith College)
The City Adorned: Programmatic Display at
the Aedes Concordiae Augustae 276
14. W. MiIERSE (University of Vermont)
Augustan Building Programs in the
Western Provinces 308
15. J. PoLLiN: (University of Southern California)
Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation
in the Late Republic and Early Principate 334
Contents
16. S. E. Ostrow (College of the Holy Cross)
The Augustales in the Augustan Scheme 364
17. G. W. BowEnsock (Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton)
The Pontificate of Augustus 380
18. E. S. GRUEN (University of California, Berkeley)
The Imperial Policy of Augustus 395
19. K. A. RAAFLAUB and L. J. SAMoNs II (Brown
University)
Opposition to Augustus 417
Index of Subjects 455
Index of Persons and Places 465
Index of Scholars 472
Index of Sources 475