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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor Tiberius.
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is an outstanding example of how, if we examine "private" issues such as those of family and gender, we gain a greater understanding of "public" concerns such as politics, religion and history. Discussing evidence from sculpture to cults and from monuments to military history, the book pursues the changing lines between public and private, family and state that gave shape to the Roman imperial system.

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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor Tiberius.
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is an outstanding example of how, if we examine "private" issues such as those of family and gender, we gain a greater understanding of "public" concerns such as politics, religion and history. Discussing evidence from sculpture to cults and from monuments to military history, the book pursues the changing lines between public and private, family and state that gave shape to the Roman imperial system.

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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

by Beth Severy
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire
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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

by Beth Severy

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In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor Tiberius.
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is an outstanding example of how, if we examine "private" issues such as those of family and gender, we gain a greater understanding of "public" concerns such as politics, religion and history. Discussing evidence from sculpture to cults and from monuments to military history, the book pursues the changing lines between public and private, family and state that gave shape to the Roman imperial system.

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ISBN-13: 9781134391820
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/24/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Beth Severy

Table of Contents

Dedication, Acknowledgements, Intro List of figures, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1 Family and state in the late republic, 2 Civil conflict and the postwar politics of restoration: Augustan experiments in image, order, and law, 3 The family of Augustus, 25–12 B.C.E., 4 The military, 5 Cults of family and state: piety, patriotism, and the pater, 12–7 B.C.E., 6 The familia of Augustus, 7 The Pater Patriae and his family, 2 B.C.E., 8 Inheriting the res publica: Tiberius, 9 The birth of the Roman empire, Bibliography, Index
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