𝔖 Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦
📁

Res gestae divi Augusti: text, translation, and commentary

✍ Scribed by Alison E. Cooley

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
331
Category
Library
⬇  Acquire This Volume

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

At the end of his life the emperor Augustus wrote an account of his achievements in which he reviewed his rise to power, his conquest of the world and his unparalleled generosity towards his subjects. This edition provides a text, translation and detailed commentary - the first substantial one in English for more than four decades - which is suitable for use with students of all levels. The commentary deals with linguistic, stylistic and historical matters. It elucidates how Augustus understood his role in Roman society, and how he wished to be remembered by posterity; and it sets this picture that emerges from the Res Gestae into the context of the emergence both of a new visual language and of an official set of expressions. The book also includes illustrations in order to demonstrate how the Augustan era witnessed the rise of a whole new visual language.

• First substantial commentary on the Res Gestae in English for more than four decades
• Incorporates the latest scholarship on the Augustan age
• Includes illustrations and maps to aid the student

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Res Gestae divi Augusti. Hauts faits du
📁 Res Gestae divi Augusti. Hauts faits du divin Auguste
✍ Imp. Caesar Augustus; John Scheid (ed.) 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Les Belles Lettres 🌐 French

Quelques jours après la mort d'Auguste, on fit porter dans la curie quatre rouleaux scellés qu'Auguste avait déposés, d’après Suétone, auprès des Vestales. Le premier contenait son testament privé, le deuxième donnait les ordres relatifs à ses funérailles, tandis que le troisième développait la situ

Res Gestae Divi Augusti
📁 Res Gestae Divi Augusti
✍ Cynthia Damon 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College 🌐 English

Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and

Res Gestae Divi Augusti
📁 Res Gestae Divi Augusti
✍ Guillermo Fatás; Manuel Martín-Bueno 📂 Library 📅 1987 🏛 Universidad Popular 🌐 Spanish