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	Augustan History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Interpretations of the purpose of the History also vary considerably, some considering it a work of fiction or satire intended to entertain (perhaps in the vein of 1066 and All That), others viewing it as a pagan attack on Christianity, the writer having concealed his identity for personal safety.
		A peculiarity of the work is its inclusion of a large number of professedly authentic documents such as extracts from Senate proceedings and letters written by imperial personages.
		As a result, his translation of the History for Penguin Books covers only the first half, and was pubished as Lives of the Later Caesars with himself supplying biographies of Nerva and Trajan which are not part of the original texts, which begin with Domitian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustan_History (475 words)

	AUGUSTAN HISTORY - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUSTAN HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even their ea vialities have their use; their endless anecdotes respecting the TI rsonal habits of the subjects of their biographies, if valueless to TI e historian, are most acceptable to the archaeologist, and not in important to the economist and moralist.
		Their errors and ga ficiencies may in part be ascribed to the contemporary neglect bl history as a branch of instruction.
		Education was in the hands wi rhetoricians and grammarians; historians were read for their th Tle, not for their matter, and since the days of Tacitus, none had TI sen worth a schoolmasters notice.
	87.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AU/AUGUSTAN_HISTORY.htm (1242 words)

	history
		Later Greek history and Roman history tended towards rhetoric; Sallust tried to recreate the style of Thucydides, but Livy wrote an Augustan history of his city and its conquests, and Tacitus expressed his cynicism about the imperial dynasty.
		Medieval history was dominated by a religious philosophy sustained by the Christian church.
		History from the point of view of ordinary people is now recognized as an important element in historical study.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0014156.html (627 words)

	Augustan Age - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Augustan Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 18th-century literature, major Augustan writers include the English poet Alexander Pope, Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, English poet, essayist, and dramatist Joseph Addison, and Irish essayist and playwright Richard Steele, as well as French writers under Louis XIV.
		The Augustan period in English literature involved the development of both the themes and the structure of the classics.
		A FARMER of the Augustan age Perused in Virgil's golden page, The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son How the dank sea-god sowed the swain Means to restore his hives again More briefly, how a slaughtered bull Breeds honey by the bellyful.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Augustan+age (656 words)

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		History might be written in Greek--as, indeed, throughout the Republican and Imperial times it continued to be--by any Roman who was sufficiently conversant with that language, in which models for every style of historical composition were ready to his hand.
		This may broadly be called an historical work, but it was history treated in a style of great latitude, the meagre, disconnected method of the annalists alternating with digressions into all kinds of subjects-- geography, ethnography, reminiscences of his own travels and experiences, and the politics and social life of his own and earlier times.
		That the earlier Augustan poets should leave their great predecessor completely unnoticed is less remarkable, for it may be taken as merely a part of that curious conspiracy of silence regarding the writers of the Ciceronian age which, whether under political pressure or not, they all adopted.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/8llit10.txt (18042 words)

	AUGUSTAN HISTORY - Encyclopedia Britannica - AUGUSTAN HISTORY - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The importance of the Augustan history as a repertory of information is very considerable, but its literary pretensions are of the humblest order.
		Even their trivialities have their use; their endless anecdotes respecting the personal habits of the subjects of their biographies, if valueless to the historian, are most acceptable to the archaeologist, and not unimportant to the economist and moralist.
		Their errors and deficiencies may in part be ascribed to the contemporary neglect of history as a branch of instruction.
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/AUD_BAI/AUGUSTAN_HISTORY.html (904 words)

	Encyclopedia: Augustan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Thirty Tyrants, or Thirty Pretenders (Latin: Tyranni Triginta) were a group of thirty men and two women declared by the author of the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, writing under the name Trebellius Pollio, to have been pretenders to the throne of the Roman Empire in the time of the...
		Dryden forms the link between Restoration and Augustan literature; although he wrote ribald comedies in the Restoration vein, his verse satires were highly admired by the generation of poets who followed him, and his writings on literature were very much in a neoclassical spirit.
		This is partly a result of the politics of naming inherent in literary history: many of the early forms of prose narrative common at this time did not fit into a literary era which defined itself as neoclassic.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Augustan-History (1609 words)

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		While the emphasis will be on the Augustan age proper, another useful dimension of the seminar will be to provide a model, pertinent to the teaching of the seminar members, for adopting a similarly synoptic approach to the study of other historical and cultural periods.
		Small wonder that from the perspective of later ages, including Augustan France and Augustan England, the age of Augustus seemed one of unshakable solidity, reinforced by "classicism," and its achievements in poetry, art, and architecture were considered as static givens.
		In brief, many Augustan phenomena--such as the form of government (the "principate"), poetic and artistic conventions, and the imperial religion-- were in a state of nascence and evolution, a fact that tends to be obscured by their routinization in later times.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/classics/faculty/Galinsky/NEHfull.html (2952 words)

	Galinsky, K.: Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction.
		Although much research has been done on individual facets of Augustan culture, Karl Galinsky's book is the first in decades to present a unified overview, one that brings together political and social history, art, literature, architecture, and religion.
		Augustan culture had many contributors, as Galinsky demonstrates, and their dynamic interactions resulted in a high point of creativity and complexity that explains the transcendence of the Augustan age.
		The time is right for a work that interweaves Augustan history, literature, and art, and Karl Galinsky is one of the very few scholars who has enough expertise in all three areas to do this successfully...
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/5818.html (341 words)

	Augustan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Augustan History (Lat Historia Augusta) is a collection of biographies of Roman Emperors and usurperss during the period 117 to 284.
		Although it is supposedly an assemblage of works by six different writers (collectively known as the Scriptores Historia Augustae), there is considerable doubt concerning not only the authorship of the work, but also when it was written and how much of the content is fictitious.
		Interpretations of the purpose of the History also vary considerably, some considering it a work of fiction intended to entertain, others viewing it as a pagan attack on Christianity, the writer having concealed his identity for personal safety.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/au/augustan_history.html (223 words)

	03-19lev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She argues that its closest parallels may be found in poetry of the Augustan period which reveal similar concerns with variation and careful attention to symmetry.
		Pagán, 'Actium and Teutoburg: Augustan Victory and Defeat in Vergil and Tacitus' (pp.
		Hans-Friedrich Mueller, 'The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of Augustan Rome' (pp.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/0319lev.htm (2332 words)

	Augustan History - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roman Civilization: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Selected Readings, Vol.
		Lives of the Later Caesars : Augustan History, Part 1; Lives of Nerva and Trajan (Penguin Classics)
		Augustan Egypt: The Creation Of A Roman Province (Studies in Classics)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /augustan_history.htm (392 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.03.07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While it is a rare historian of the Augustan period who has not had to deal with Cassius Dio, it is probably an even rarer one who can claim thorough understanding of or comfort with him as a source.
		This volume is targeted toward historians of the Augustan period to whom Dio is of interest primarily as a source of facts rather than as an author in himself.
		The most detailed attempt I know of to construct a teleology for Dio's history is Rosemarie Bering-Stachewski's Römische Zeitgeschichte bei Cassius Dio (Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1981), which argues that Dio saw the Empire as in a state of irreversible decline.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-03-07.html (2527 words)

	Making Haste
		Due to the compartmentalized organization of scholarly compendia like CAH 10, such overriding characteristics of the Augustan age are not dealt with in a synoptic way, but tend to be subordinated even in the individual chapters to the perceived need for "factual" summaries.
		The fragility of the survival of the Boscoreale cups is a salutary reminder of the often incomplete remains of the artifacts and monuments from a major period that we consider to be relatively abundant for its evidence.
		Within the larger panorama of Augustan civilization, "encroachment" is part of a wider spectrum of evolution and experimentation, but such a perspective would mean forsaking the tone of grumpy censoriousness and thereby the link to the aura of Syme and Tacitus.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/classics/faculty/Galinsky/festina.html (3155 words)

	Augustan History -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marked by civil peace and prosperity, the age reached its highest literary expression in poetry, a polished and sophisticated verse generally addressed to a patron or to...
		History is a science—a branch of knowledge that uses specific methods and tools to achieve its goals.
		Brief history of Uruguay from its settlement by Europeans in the 16th century to the restoration of democracy in the 1980s.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011254 (825 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.9.7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rather than look at the Palatine temple complex from the point of view of later Augustan monuments, we would do better to read it as transitional from republican to imperial public construction and to study how the tradition evolved from the occasional fulfillment of a specific vow into a an apparently well-organized program.
		This statement is particularly remarkable given that the Romans had so thoroughly refined the gruesome art of crucifixion; live burials, strangulation, and clubbing to death were also among their merciful repertoire.
		These contain violent episodes, to be sure, but they are also defining events in the history of Rome; and it is their violent culmination in the battle of Actium that resulted in the conquest of peoples from all over the known world.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.09.07.html (2668 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Augustan Encomiums, c. 31 BCE - 14 CE
		This text is part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.
		The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history.
		Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the document is copyright.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/augustanencomions.html (687 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However some subjects, which it embraces, may have undergone more complete investigation, on the general view of the whole period, this history is the sole undisputed authority to which all defer, and from which few appeal to the original writers, or to more modern compilers.
		Every national history, to be complete, must, in a certain sense, be the history of Europe; there is no knowing to how remote a quarter it may be necessary to trace our most domestic events; from a country, how apparently disconnected, may originate the impulse which gives its direction to the whole course of affairs.
		From the immense range of his history, it was sometimes necessary to compress into a single sentence, a whole vague and diffuse page of a Byzantine chronicler.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/decline1.txt (18352 words)

	LATN 3002
		The concept of "the previous world", oddly enough, denoted Rome only at the level of allusion: rather than damning their own recent history, the Augustan poets generally spoke allegorically of Homeric myth, behaving as though Troy rather than Republican Rome was the fallen morally bankrupt world.
		The dominant imagery of all Augustan poetry is that of a new Rome rising from the ashes of the old yet morally "immature" world.
		This was one of the most delicate balancing acts in the history of politics, one to which every later ruler from the Popes to Charlemagne to Napoleon to Hitler appealed, but one which was seldom fully understood or even remotely imitated.
	personal.ecu.edu /stevensj/LATN3002 (2270 words)

	AD 1
		Contains histories of the various Roman eras, biographies of the emperors, interactive maps, timelines of emperors and Roman battles, a list of Roman place names and articles on religion, society and the army.
		A history of the Mediterranean territories already won by the Roman republic and added to by the first emperor Augustus, whose armies conquered all of north Africa and territory reaching east to the Red Sea, west to the Atlantic and north to the Rhine and the Danube.
		Books 31 to 40 of Livy's history chart Rome's emergence as an imperial nation and the Romans' tempestuous involvement with Greece, Macedonia and the Near East in the opening decades of the 2nd century BC.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/rome/rulefindout.html (791 words)

	The English Coffee Houses
		While the coffee-house was not unique to the city, Ned Ward came close to describing the elements which made the London coffee-house different from all others, and it was just these differences which accounted for the place of this establishment in the social history of London.
		These coffee-houses were the direct antecedents of the first clubs in London, housing the gaming rooms where the rakes and idlers passed the hours at cards.
		As Isaac D'Israeli noted, "The history of Coffee-houses, ere the inventions of clubs, was that of the manners, the morals, and the politics of a people."
	waeshael.home.att.net /coffee.htm (3034 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.10.13
		I have often thought that it would be an amusing exercise to construct a history of Augustan Rome by cutting and pasting sentences about the princeps from interpretations of Augustan poetry.
		That is not meant as a criticism of Augustan literary critics; merely an observation that history is slippery.
		Her most clearly argued and most significant criticism is that we tend to see history as a stable, objective base from which to interpret literature, rather than as a series of equally shifting and interpretable texts.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-10-13.html (1936 words)

	The Biographers 2/2
		Most famous for two major historical works, the Histories and the Annals, he also wrote two monographs, one on the Germans, and one a biography of his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola.
		The Agricola was written in the brief reign of the Emperor Nerva (96-98 AD), partly in reaction to the persecution of intellectuals and book-burning which had taken place under Domitian.
		The Rolfe translation of The Lives of the Caesars is at Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius and of the surviving parts of Illustrious Men at Paul Halsall's Ancient History Sourcebook.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_biographies/104099 (516 words)

	AUGUSTAN SOCIETY Home Page
		Membership in the Augustan Society is now open.
		he Augustan Society was founded 18 August 1957; incorporated 12 May 1966; in the state of California titled a public benefit corporation.
		Qualifying individuals may petition for membership in the Noble Company of the Rose, a noble chivalric corporation, under the patronage of HSH Ernst August Prinz zur Lippe, which is part of The Augustan Society.
	www.augustansociety.org (740 words)

	Augustan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History: With Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan.
		If you are to read this enigmatic work, you are already a Roman History buff, so beware to sort the fiction from actual history.
		Although I was required to purchase and use this book for my Roman History course, I found it to be absolutely amazing in quality and detailed and compelling in content.No enthusiast of Classical civilization, amature or professional, should be without th...
	www.freeglossary.com /Augustan_History (424 words)

	Search Results for Augustan - Encyclopædia Britannica
		one of the most illustrious periods in Latin literary history, from approximately 43 BC to AD 18; together with the preceding Ciceronian period (q.v.), it forms the Golden Age (q.v.) of Latin...
		Religion from the Augustan reformation to the death of Marcus Aurelius: 27 – 180
		Greek rhetorician who was one of the most important critics and rhetoricians of the Augustan age.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Augustan&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (496 words)

	General -- Basic Virgil Paperbacks -- virgil.org
		He demonstrates that this culture was neither monolithic nor the mere result of one man's will.
		Comparetti begins with the period in which Vergil lived and goes on to evaluate how the later images, particularly the legends, of Vergil coincide with the more scholarly accounts of his life.
		The result is a grand sweep of literary history from the first century BCE.
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