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Augustus : image and substance / Barbara Levick.
- Title
- Augustus : image and substance / Barbara Levick.
- Author
- Levick, Barbara
- Publication
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2010.
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- Description
- xxiv, 351 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Throughout a long and speetaculary successful political life. the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved. There was, she argues. less difference than might appear between the ambitious youth who overthrew Anthony and Cleopatra and the admired Emperor of later years. However seemingly benevolent his autocracy and substantial his achievements, Augustus' overriding purpose was always to keep himself and his dynasty in power. Similar techniques were practised against surviving and fresh opponents, but with increasing skill and duplicity. and in the end the exhausted members of thepolitical classes were content to accept their new ruler. This book charts the stages of Augustus' rise, the evolution of his power and his methods of sustaining it, and finally the ways in which he used artists and literary men to glorify his image for his own time and times to come.
- Subject
- Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D
- Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. > Psychology
- Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. > Influence
- 30 B.C.-284 A.D
- Emperors > Rome > Biography
- Political leadership > Rome > Case studies
- Rome > Kings and rulers > Biography
- Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
- Rome > Politics and government > 30 B.C.-284 A.D
- Genre/Form
- History
- Biographies
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chronology -- Introduction: The enigma -- Octavian : heir of an autocrat -- Augustus : political evolution -- Techniques of management and the feel-good factor -- Opposition and discontent -- The self-presentation of a monarch -- Augustus in art and literature -- Unmasking a god -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 9780582894211 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010002193
- OCLC
- 502304523
- SCSB-11928086
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library