The Fabrication of Tradition

Horace, Augustus and the Secular Games

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9308445
AutoresPJ Davis (University of Tasmania, autor de correspondencia), P J Davis
Año2001
Volumen30
Número2
Páginas111-127
Fecha de publicación2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRamus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0048671x0000148x
OpenAlexW2291181133
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas22

Now, at this season when selected girls And the boys who are about to venture upon them, Though still in bud, sing what will please London... (C.H. Sisson, 1974) Rome's first emperor proved remarkably successful in shaping a positive image for himself in his own and subsequent eras. Here was a man who came to power through that most criminal of means, through victory in civil war, and yet managed to persuade his own and succeeding generations of his right to rule. How did the enthusiastic proscriber of the innocent and the brutal destroyer of Perusia transform himself into the sublime Augustus? Here was one of Rome's great militarists, a man who, by one reckoning, doubled the size of the Roman empire. How could this warlord be perceived as a ‘prince of peace’? One answer to these questions is that this transformation of perception, both ancient and modern, was achieved through die emperor's promotion of a complex of ideas designed to accomplish precisely this perceptual shift, a complex of ideas which we variously call ‘Augustan ideology’, ‘Augustan discourse’ or even ‘Augustan cultural thematics’

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