ALTERNATIVE AUGUSTAN AGE C

This book boldly reinterprets the central period of Roman history by taking the focus off the emperor Augustus. Its chapters highlight the contributions of other individuals and continuities with republican culture. Together they show that Augustus has been more dominant in later memory than he was in his own lifetime.

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 Artful Reporter (CPW).

- Preface - List of contributors - Table of figures - 1. The alternative Augustan age - Hannah Mitchell, Kit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, and Kathryn Welch - 2. Augustus as magpie - Kit Morrell - 3. Hopes and aspirations: res publica, leges et iura, and alternatives at Rome - Eleanor Cowan - 4. Rebuilding Romulus' Senate: The lectio senatus of 18 BCE - Andrew Pettinger - 5. The good wife: fate, fortune, and familia in Augustan Rome - Bronwyn Hopwood - 6. At magnus Caesar, and Yet! Social resistance against Augustan legislation - Werner Eck - 7. C. Asinius Pollio and the politics of cosmopolitanism - Joel Allen - 8. For Rome or for Augustus? Triumphs beyond the imperial family in the post-civil war period - Carsten Hjort Lange - 9. Egyptian victories: the praefectus Aegypti and the presentation of military success in the age of Augustus - Wolfgang Havener - 10. African alternatives - Josiah Osgood - 11. The reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the idea of "serving the times" - Hannah Mitchell - 12. How do you solve a problem like Marcus Agrippa? - James Tan - 13. Acting "republican" under Augustus: the coin types of the gens Antistia - Megan Goldman-Petri - 14. Saecular discourse: qualitative periodization in first century BCE Rome - Paul Hay - 15. Maecenas and the Augustan poets: the background of a cultural ambition - Philippe Le Doze - 16. Gauls on top: provincials ruling Rome on the shield of Aeneas - Geraldine Herbert-Brown - 17. The rise of the centumviral court in the Augustan age: an alternative arena of aristocratic competition - Matthew Roller - 18. Shields of Virtue(s) - Kathryn Welch - 19. The popular reception of Augustus and the self-infantilization of Rome's citizenry - Tom Hillard - 20. Inventing the imperial Senate - Amy Russell - Bibliography