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Augustus included the aerarium militare among the accomplishments in his Res Gestae, the commemorative autobiography published posthumously throughout the Empire. [5] In addressing the Senate on the subject, Augustus had stated his intention to provide for military personnel from enlistment through retirement.
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.
This was reprinted in the US with Smeaton's notes in two volumes by Modern Library in 1932, later divided into three volumes, [5] and the text without his notes was reprinted as volumes 40 and 41 of the Great Books of the Western World series in 1952. The 1946 Heritage Press edition of Bury's is three volumes.
Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively.
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 ...
The Augustan stage retreated from the Restoration's focus on cuckoldry, marriage for fortune, and a life of leisure. Instead, Augustan drama reflected questions the mercantile class had about itself and what it meant to be gentry: what it meant to be a good merchant, how to achieve wealth with morality, and the proper role of those who serve.
In contrast to the Restoration period, the Augustan period showed less literature of controversy. Compared to the extraordinary energy that produced Richard Baxter, George Fox , Gerrard Winstanley , and William Penn , the literature of dissenting religious in the first half of the 18th century was spent.
The Augustan Reprint Society was founded in 1945 by Edward Niles Hooker and H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. [1] of UCLA and Richard Charles Boys of the University of Michigan. [2] The Society specialized in publishing reprints of English literature from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with individual titles ranging from the very well-known (e.g. Grey's Elegy) to manuscripts whose existences ...