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The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, 1973) ISBN 0-19-501614-9 (pbk.) 4,500 pages of Restoration and Augustan literature. Major works like Pope's An Essay on Criticism and Swift's A Tale of a Tub are merely excerpted. Annotated with a bibliography.
This provided Augustus with another connection between himself and the old Republic, an era of Roman history he continuously tried to invoke during his reign. The statues of the famous men of the Republic for which an inscription has survived are: [11] Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, consul in 496 BC, won the Battle of Lake Regillus.
Augustan literature is a period of Latin literature written during the reign of Augustus (27 BC–AD 14), the first Roman emperor. [1] In literary histories of the first part of the 20th century and earlier, Augustan literature was regarded along with that of the Late Republic as constituting the Golden Age of Latin literature , a period of ...
In drama, by contrast, it was an age in transition between the highly witty and sexually playful Restoration comedy, the pathetic she-tragedy of the turn of the 18th century, and any later plots of middle-class anxiety. The Augustan stage retreated from the Restoration's focus on cuckoldry, marriage for fortune, and a life of leisure.
At the outset of the Augustan age, essays were still primarily imitative, novels were few and still dominated by the Romance, and prose was a rarely used format for satire, but, by the end of the period, the English essay was a fully formed periodical feature, novels surpassed drama as entertainment and as an outlet for serious authors, and ...
Rome, the Greek World, and the East: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. Vol. 1. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807875087. Millar, Fergus (2004). Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Government, Society and Culture in the Roman Empire. Vol. 2. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN ...
Augustan is an adjective which means pertaining to Augustus or Augusta. It can refer to: Augustan Age (disambiguation) Augustan literature (ancient Rome) Augustan prose; Augustan poetry; Augustan Reprint Society; Augustan literature; Augustan History; Augustan drama; A current or former resident of Augusta, Georgia; See also. Legio I Augusta or ...
[2] [3] When Augustus assumed the office of pontifex maximus, he moved the Sibylline Books from the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus to the Palatine Apollo. [4] Gaius Julius Hyginus, a freedman of Augustus and accomplished grammarian, was the director of the library. [5] Exclusion from the library definitively signaled an author’s rejection. [6]