The Alternative Augustan Age 1st Edition Josiah Osgood

1. The Alternative Augustan Age

2. Augustus as Magpie

3. Hopes and Aspirations: Res Publica, Leges et Iura, and Alternatives at Rome

4. Rebuilding Romulus’ Senate: The Lectio Senatus of 18 bce

5. The Good Wife: Fate, Fortune, and Familia in Augustan Rome

6. At Magnus Caesar, and Yet! Social Resistance against Augustan Legislation

7. C. Asinius Pollio and the Politics of Cosmopolitanism

8. For Rome or for Augustus? Triumphs beyond the Imperial Family in the Post-Civil-War Period

9. Egyptian Victories: The Praefectus Aegypti and the Presentation of Military Success in the Age of Augustus

10. African Alternatives

11. The Reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the Idea of “Serving the Times”

12. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marcus Agrippa?

13. Acting “Republican” under Augustus: The Coin Types of the Gens Antistia

14. Saecular Discourse: Qualitative Periodization in First-Century-bce Rome

15. Maecenas and the Augustan Poets: The Background of a Cultural Ambition

16. Gauls on Top: Provincials Ruling Rome on the Shield of Aeneas

17. The Rise of the Centumviral Court in the Augustan Age: An Alternative Arena of Aristocratic Competition

18. Shields of Virtue(s)

19. The Popular Reception of Augustus and the Self-Infantilization of Rome’s Citizenry

20. Inventing the Imperial Senate