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1400: 1364: 20: 1386: 192:, or the writer's attitude toward his subject matter, are acute among the preoccupations of scholars who study the period. In particular, Augustan works are analyzed in an effort to understand the extent to which they advance, support, criticize or undermine social and political attitudes promulgated by the regime, official forms of which were often expressed in aesthetic media. 1032: 1217: 642: 1441: 393: 1426: 1253: 1184: 1083: 1431: 669: 450: 327: 419: 160:, also permits complex readings on the source and meaning of Rome's power and the responsibilities of a good leader. 163:
Ovid's works were wildly popular, but the poet was exiled by Augustus in one of literary history's great mysteries;
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of the first part of the 20th century and earlier, Augustan literature was regarded along with that of the
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are their so-called "Silver Age" heirs. Although Vergil has sometimes been considered a "court poet", his
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was still in effect during Caesar's relatively short time in power. His heir Augustus styled himself
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Augustan literature produced the most widely read, influential, and enduring of Rome's poets. The
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Exemplarisches Krisenwissen: Gender in Narrativ Und Narration Des Fruhen Prinzipats
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is preeminent for both its scope and stylistic achievement. The multi-volume work
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is the poet whose work is most thoroughly embedded in the Augustan regime.
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The Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.–A.D. 69
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Joseph Farrell, "The Augustan Period: 40 BC–AD 14," in
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Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 276:(1st century BC & AD), Latin educator 104:years, before Octavian assumed the title 84:as "Augustan" was in fact written by men— 396:See also Farrell, "The Augustan Period." 18: 371: 369: 282:(1st century BC), historian, naturalist 1414: 409: 352: 350: 228:(Livy) (64 BC – 12 AD), historian 432: 270:(d. 10 or 11 AD), jurist, philologist 366: 347: 117: 13: 403: 328:constitution of the Roman Republic 156:, the most important of the Latin 134:are their immediate predecessors; 14: 1453: 234:(Ovid) (43 BC – 18 AD), poet 1398: 1384: 1363: 1362: 1343:Felicior Augusto, melior Traiano 326:in perpetuity; technically, the 1442:Cultural depictions of Augustus 1054:Augustan and Julio-Claudian art 377:A Companion to Latin Literature 222:(54 – 19 BC), elegiac poet 382: 311: 240:(a contemporary of Ovid), poet 71:Golden Age of Latin literature 1: 379:(Blackwell, 2005), pp. 44–57. 304: 288:(1st century BC), rhetorician 458: 53:written during the reign of 7: 10: 1458: 1427:Classical Latin literature 782:Library of Palatine Apollo 342:Roman Emperor (Principate) 214:Sextus Aurelius Propertius 16:Period in Latin literature 1432:1st-century BC literature 1357: 1292: 1266: 1236: 1205: 1198: 1143: 1117: 1076: 1067: 1041: 1018: 968: 940: 912: 846: 810: 700: 662: 621: 550: 541: 481: 466: 57:(27 BC–AD 14), the first 361:Journal of Roman Studies 208:Quintus Horatius Flaccus 196:List of Augustan writers 188:Questions pertaining to 73:, a period of stylistic 1027:Res Gestae Divi Augusti 802:Caesareum of Alexandria 262:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 216:(50 – 15 BC), poet 80:Most of the literature 1437:1st-century literature 670:Constitutional Reforms 280:Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus 268:Marcus Antistius Labeo 256:Marcus Verrius Flaccus 202:Publius Vergilius Maro 43: 1325:Roman Temple of Évora 723:Porticus Argonautarum 577:Liberators' Civil War 110:. 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Vergil
mosaic
Muses
Clio
Melpomene
Latin literature
Augustus
Roman emperor
literary histories
Late Republic
Golden Age of Latin literature
classicism
periodized
Vergil
Horace
Propertius
Livy
triumviral
Augustus
Ovid
Republican
Catullus
Lucretius
Lucan
Martial
Juvenal
Statius
Aeneid
epics

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