Emperor of Rome Augustus - The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO

THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS

The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 B.C.A.D. 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many key developments were under way when Augustus took charge, and a recurring theme is the role that he played in shaping their direction. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus captures the dynamic and richness of this era by examining important aspects of political and social history, religion, literature, and art and architecture. The sixteen essays, written by distinguished specialists from the United States and Europe, explore the multifaceted character of the period and the interconnections among social, religious, political, literary, and artistic developments. Introducing the reader to many of the central issues of the Age of Augustus, the essays also break new ground and will stimulate further research and discussion.

Karl Galinsky is professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of several books, including Augustan Culture, and numerous scholarly articles, he has received awards for his teaching and research, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the von Humboldt Foundation.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO

THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS

Edited by

KARL GALINSKY

University of Texas at Austin

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The Cambridge companion to the Age of Augustus / edited by Karl Galinsky.

p. cm. (Cambridge companion to the classics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-521-00393-8 (pbk.) ISBN 0-521-80796-4 (hardback)

1. Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. 2. Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. 3. Rome Civilization.

I. Galinsky, Karl, 1942- II. Series.

DG279.C35 2005

937.07 dc22 2005010513

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CONTENTS

KARL GALINSKY

WALTER EDER

ERICH S. GRUEN

ANDREW WALLACE-HADRILL

NICHOLAS PURCELL

GREG WOOLF

SUSAN TREGGIARI

RICHARD BEACHAM

JOHN SCHEID

DIANA E. E. KLEINER

DIANE FAVRO

JOHN R. CLARKE

ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI

JASPER GRIFFIN

PETER WHITE

KARL GALINSKY

L. MICHAEL WHITE

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CONTRIBUTORS

ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo, and at Stanford. He has published widely on the major Augustan poets in various contexts, cultural and literary. He is currently working on two books, entitled Virgilian Geopoetics (based on his 2001 Gray Lectures at Cambridge, UK) and Copies without Models. Hellenization and Augustan Poetry (from his 20023 Jerome Lectures in Ann Arbor and the American Academy in Rome). He is editor of the Florence-based journal Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica.

RICHARD BEACHAM is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Roman Theatre and Its Audience (Harvard, 1992), and Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome (Yale, 1999). He is currently working on Vol. 2 of Spectacle Entertainments, and, together with Dr. Hugh Denard, on Performing Culture: Roman Pictorial Arts and the Ancient Theatre, both to be published by Yale University Press. Together with Professor James Packer, he is directing the first scientific survey and analysis of the Theatre of Pompey at Rome.

JOHN R. CLARKE is Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of History of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles as well as five books on Roman art and culture, including Roman Sex (2003), Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.A.D. 315 (2003), and Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.A.D. 250 (1998).

WALTER EDER is Professor of Ancient History at the Ruhr University at Bochum, Germany. His numerous publications are about both Greek and Roman history and constitutional history in particular. He is the editor of Staat und Staatlichkeit in der frhen rmischen Republik (1990) and Die Athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (1995), and coeditor of the lexicon Der Neue Pauly. He is currently at work on a comparative study of Greece and Rome with the tentative title Die geteilte Antike.

DIANE FAVRO is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA and the author of The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 1996). She served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians from 2002 to 2004 and currently is Associate Director of the Cultural Virtual Reality Lab at UCLA, which is modeling the ancient Roman Forum. Among her current projects are articles on ancient urban icons and city boundaries, and a book on Roman architecture with Fikret Yegul for Cambridge University Press.

KARL GALINSKY is Floyd Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published extensively on the Augustan poets and Augustan art and directed numerous projects, including seminars on the Augustan age, for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction (Princeton, 1996; paperback ed. 1998).

JASPER GRIFFIN is Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator at Oxford University. His interests and publications range widely over both Greek and Roman literature. Some of the books he has written are