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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 ...
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.
The phrases renovatio Romanorum ("renewal of the Romans") and renovatio urbis Romae ("renewal of the city of Rome") had been used already during Antiquity. [3] The word renovatio ("renewal") and its relatives, restitutio ("restitution") and reparatio ("restoration"), appeared on some Roman coins from the reign of Hadrian onward, usually signifying the restoration of peace after a rebellion. [4]
It would never go out of print, and the Augustan age saw many free translations in varying styles, by journalists (Ned Ward, 1700 and Peter Motteux, 1712) as well as novelists (Tobias Smollett, 1755). In general, one can see these three axes, drama, journalism, and satire, as blending in and giving rise to three different types of novel.
Livy wrote after the late republic, during the Augustan period. [83] However, his treatment of the late Republic does not survive except in an epitome called the Periochae . While it is generally accepted that "Livy applies late republican political language to events from earlier periods", the terms optimates and populares (and derivatives ...
The Roman Republic in Political Thought. Hanover: University Press of New England. ISBN 9781584651994. Millar, Fergus (2002). 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).
The authenticity of the letters was for a long time cast into doubt, but is now generally recognized, with the exception of the first book's letters 16 and 17. [2] These two letters resemble the style of suasoriae — exercises in rhetoric commonly used by students of the late Republic and Augustan eras.