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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire eBook
by Beth Severy
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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire Summary
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Following the civil wars at the end of the Roman Republic, the victor Augustus experimented with potential public personas: a magistrate, a refounder of Rome, a restorer of Roman civic and family values. He came to articulate his relationship with Rome as that of a father to his family, even receiving the title Pater Patriae, "Father of the Country" in 2 BCE. The notion of family became central to the ideals and image that Augustus sought to promote, even to the extent that this first emperor's ambition became dynastic. 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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